Sahab's Map of Tehran Mapmaker(s)_Petrus Schenk but despite a disastrous fire

but despite a disastrous fire at his premises in 1750 he avoided their fate and died solvent

engraved by James Bingley

His biographer Alan Ereira explores Ogilby's earlier incarnations in The Nine Lives of John Ogilby as a dancing master

rather than extracting ‘their spirit and essence’ himself

After Innocent's death in 1700 Clement XI continued the project

Sahab's Map of Tehran Mapmaker(s)_Petrus Schenk but despite a disastrous fireThis map of Tehran features a legend in the borders listing 218 places of interest in the pre Revolutionary city. The mapmakers own premises are identified within a red oval in the right hand part of the map. Abbas (1921 2000) was encouraged by his father and his teachers to draft maps from a remarkably young age: considered by many as the father of modern Persian cartography he established the SGDI [Sahab Geographic and Drafting Institute] in 1936