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Elias Ashmole FRS (23 May 1617 – 18 May 1692) was an English antiquary, politician, officer of arms, astrologer, freemason and student of alchemy. Ashmole supported the royalist side during the English Civil War , and at the restoration of Charles II he was rewarded with several lucrative offices.
Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum first published in 1652, is an extensively annotated compilation of English alchemical literature acquired by Elias Ashmole. The book preserved and made available many works that had previously existed only in privately held manuscripts. It is the first part of a planned multi-volume set.
Elias Ashmole (1617–1692) Thomas Henshaw (1618–1700) Thomas Vaughan (Eugenius Philalethes) (1621–1666) Edmund Dickinson (1624–1707) Johann Friedrich Schweitzer (1625–1709) Frederick Clod (born 1625) Giuseppe Francesco Borri (1627–1695) Robert Boyle (1627–1691) George Starkey (alchemist) (Eirenaeus Philalethes) (1628–1665) Hening ...
In 1652, Elias Ashmole published a similarly entitled work by the name of Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum in London. The two works are related by subject, but are different in content. However, because of the printing date of Ashmole's work and the similar titles, the two compendiums are often confused.
The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology (/ æ ʃ ˈ m oʊ l i ən, ˌ æ ʃ m ə ˈ l iː ən /) [2] on Beaumont Street in Oxford, England, is Britain's first public museum. [3] Its first building was erected in 1678–1683 to house the cabinet of curiosities that Elias Ashmole gave to the University of Oxford in 1677.
Elias Ashmole was an antiquarian, collector, politician, and student of astrology and alchemy. He supported the royalist side during the English Civil War , and at the restoration of Charles II he was rewarded with several lucrative offices.
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William Backhouse (17 January 1593 – 30 May 1662) was an English philosopher, alchemist, astrologer, translator, and the esoteric mentor of Elias Ashmole. Born into the wealthy Backhouse family, Backhouse enjoyed an education at Oxford , and was likely exposed to alchemical teachings and the Rosicrucian manifestos of the 1610s.