I have written as I rode
Adam Smyth: ‘Brief Lives’, 8 October 2015
‘Brief Lives’ with ‘An Apparatus for the Lives of Our English Mathematical Writers’
by John Aubrey, edited by Kate Bennett.
Oxford, 1968 pp., £250, March 2015,978 0 19 968953 8 Show More
by John Aubrey, edited by Kate Bennett.
Oxford, 1968 pp., £250, March 2015,
John Aubrey: My Own Life
by Ruth Scurr.
Chatto, 518 pp., £25, March 2015,978 0 7011 7907 6 Show More
by Ruth Scurr.
Chatto, 518 pp., £25, March 2015,
“... the depleted printers ‘could gett no better’. Fascinated with Roman remains, Aubrey took Charles II to see Avebury in 1663 after discovering the stones while hunting with aristocratic friends; he commissioned drawings of the 12th-century Osney Abbey before it was demolished. Like all busy people, he worked all the time, and felt he wasn’t working ... ”