John Speed

John Speed (1552–1629) was an English cartographer and historian. He is known as England's most famous Stuart period mapmaker.

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    “There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them.”
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