Elias Ashmole

...everything in his will to his wife. This led to a court case upon his death. The deed proved valid and Ashmole won the case. In 1657 Ashmole began negotiations with his former university. A museum was built on Broad Street (now the Museum...

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The Ashmolean Museum (in full the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology) on Beaumont Street, Oxford, England, is the world's first university museum. Its first building was built in 1678-1683 to house the cabinet of curiosities Elias...

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Samuel Johnson's birthplace, on the corner of Market Street and Breadmarket Street, Lichfield: Ashmole was born in the same street. Ashmole was born in Breadmarket Street, Lichfield, Staffordshire. His family had been prominent, but...

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...former opponent William Lilly spoke up for him with Bulstrode Whitelocke. He was released by the intervention of Ashmole, who made him steward on his Berkshire estates. At the English Restoration of 1660, he was reinstated as a paymaster.

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Elias Ashmole (23 May 1617-18 May 1692), the celebrated English antiquary , was a politician, officer of arms, student of astrology and alchemy, and an early speculative Freemason . He supported the royalist side during the English Civil...

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...pseudonym of "James Hasholle" (by substitution of the letter J for I). However, Dee was displeased with Ashmole's translation, and wrote to him: I am sorry you or any man should take pains to translate any book of that art into English,...

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...the chain of Rosie Cross links from Michael Maier and Robert Fludd, over William Backhouse to Elias Ashmole the details given about Ashmole's training as a craftsman could illustrate the background of the latter's acception in operative...

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...create the Ashmolean Museum. He also donated his library and priceless manuscript collection to Oxford. Apart from his collecting activities, Ashmole illustrates the passing of the pre-scientific world view in the seventeenth century: while he...

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...Museum. He also donated his library and priceless manuscript collection to Oxford. Apart from his collecting hobbies, Ashmole illustrates the passing of the occult philosophy in the 17th century: while he immersed himself in...

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...phenomenon in one building. Worth a visit, I think. It goes back further than that, though. The crafty old antiquarian Elias Ashmole, who presented the collection to the university, was a freemason, royalist, alchemist and opportunist,...

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