Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Wright, D. Elias Ashmole founder of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford archaeologist, astrologer, historian, Rosicrucian, and freemason. The Freemason, 1924. 35p. 

Education, Easton, Penna., 1948 86 Ashmolean Museum, Oxford... 

London/Photo John Freeman Aldus Books 104(TL) Aldus Archives 104(TR) Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 105 Victoria Albert Museum,... 

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK. This is a museum of the University of Oxford. Founded in 1683, it is one of the oldest public museums in the world. Important collections include early Chinese ceramics and Japanese export porcelain, www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk. 

Hunter, Michael Cyril William. Elias Ashmole, 1617-1692 the founder of the Ashmolean Museum and his world a tercentenary exhibition, 27 April to 31 July 1983 / compiled by Michael Hunter in conjunction with Kenneth Garlick and N. J. Mayhew Bodleian exhibition entries by Albinia De la Mare. Oxford Ashmolean Museum, 1983. xi, 92p. ISBN 0907849008... 

Archivists and librarians have helped me in many ways, especially in the Australian National University the Australian National Library the Biblio-theque nationale de France the Bibliotheque de L Arsenal the Archives Nationales the British Library the British Museum the Bodleian Library, Oxford the Ashmolean Library, Oxford Torre Abbey, Torquay the Huntington Library, California the Archivio de Pesaro the Staat Archivs in Basel and the Bibliotheque de la ville de Strasbourg. 

Michael Hunter, Elias Ashmole, 161J—1692 The Founder of the Ashmolean Museum and his World (Oxford, 1983), reprinted in Hunter, Science and the Shape of Orthodoxy Intellectual Change in Late Seventeenth Century Britain (Wbodbridge, 1995), 21—44 Josten, Ashmole, i. 210 iii. 1208 iv. 1454—5,1809. Most of these MSS are now in the Ashmole collection in the Bodleian, though it is unclear why some of Ashmoles papers, particularly those containing magical material, are now in the Sloane Collection in the British Library. 

He similarly annotated Forman s essays on the Heavens , paraphrased them, and checked Forman s figures against other sources, at one point finding Forman s calculations lacking in comparison with those included in Edward Sherbourne s tables in his edition of The Sphere of M. Manilius (1675). Ashmole died in 1692, having ensured that Forman s papers were preserved with the rest of his collection of manuscripts, books, and rarities in the newly founded Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. 

Hunter, Michael, Elias Ashmole, i6ij—i6gz The Founder of the Ashmolean Museum and his World (Oxford, 1983), reprinted in Hunter, Science and the Shape of Orthodoxy Intellectual Change in Late Seventeenth-Century Britain (Woodbridge, 1995), 21—44. 

J. A. Bennett, S. A. Johnston and A. V. Simcock, Solomon s House in Oxford New Einds from the Eirst Museum, Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, 2000, 31-48 for chemical, 48-58 for anatomical remains. Many of the perishable items in the original Tradescant Collection decayed away or else were lost or destroyed due to neglect. Some are now conserved in the Founder s Room of the Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont St, Oxford, while some anatomical pieces - such as the bony remains of the famous Dodo bird - are on display in the University Museum, Parks Road, Oxford. Anthony J. Turner, Robert Plot , Oxford DNB. William Wilder s apothecary s shop and laboratory stood on the south side of the High Street, around what is now No. 80, just east of Thomas Willis s private hospital at Bostar Hall and the Angel Inn, by Logic Lane. See Brookes, Experimental Chemistry in Oxford (n. 27), 30. Gunther, Early Science in Oxford vol. I (n. 28), 50. 

Frewin s use of this title is mentioned by A.V. Simcock, The Ashmolean Museum and Oxford Science, 1683-1983, Museum of the History of Science, 1984, pp. 9 and 34. 

C. Daubeny, Inaugural lecture on the study of chemistry, read at the Ashmolean Museum, November 2, 1822, Oxford, 1823. 

The earliest chemistry laboratories in Oxford have been described in the several chapters of this book including the basement of the old Ashmolean Museum,... 

Heracles to Alexander The Great Treasures from the Royal Capital of Macedon—A Hellenic Kingdom in the Age of Democracy. Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology. University of Oxford. 

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