John Speed
Sign in to saveEnglish cartographer and historian (1551/52-1629)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1552?
- Died
- 1629
- Works
- 58
Top works
- England
- The historie of Great Britaine
- What Europe knew of China three hundred years ago
- A clowd of vvitnesses, and they the holy genealogies of the Sacred Scriptures
- An atlas of Tudor England and Wales
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- 2
- Total plays
- 2
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Place of birth
- Farndon
- Place of death
- London
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- cartography
- Image
- Portrait of John Speed by Solomon Savery.jpg
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- Commons category
- John Speed
- date of death
- 1629-00-00
- date of birth
- 1542-00-00
- Commons Creator page
- John Speed
- place of burial
- St Giles-without-Cripplegate
- writing language
- English language
- has works in the collection
- National Library of Wales
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- Français
- 中文
- Русский
- Português
- Italiano
- العربية
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Catalan
- Croatian
- Egyptian Arabic
- Hebrew
- Irish
- Latin
- Nederlands
- Norwegian Nynorsk
- Pashto
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