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The Garden, the Ark, the Tower, the Temple:   Index

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Section 1: Bibles


1 The Holy Bible …Illustrated wth Chorographical Sculps. by J. Ogilby
2 vols, Cambridge, 1660
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2 Portrait of John Ogilby
By Sir Peter Lely
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3 The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and the New
Cambridge, 1638
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4 The Bible
London, 1615
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5 English Delftware Dish
circa 1660–75
6 A Compleat Collection of Cutts of the Old Testament
London, 1716
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7 Nicolaes Visscher
Figures of the Bible in Wich Almost Every History of the Holy Scriptures is Discribed
Amsterdam, no date
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8 The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and the New
London, 1660
Section 2: Samuel Hartlib


9 Samuel Hartlib to John Aubrey
8th March, 1653
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10 Samuel Hartlib (ed.)
Samuel Hartlib His Legacie: Or an Enlargement of the Discourse of Husbandry Used in Brabant & Flaunders
2nd edition, London, 1652
11 Samuel Hartlib (ed.)
A Designe for Plentie by an Universall Planting of Fruit-Trees: Tendred by Some Wel-Wishers to the Publick
London, [1652]
12 Samuel Hartlib (ed.)
The Reformed Husband-Man; Or a Brief Treatise of the Errors, Defects, and Inconveniences of our English Husbandry
2nd issue, London, 1651
Section 3: The Garden


13 Sir Hugh Plat
The Garden of Eden
London, 1653
14 Ralph Austen
The Spirituall Use, of an Orchard; or Garden of Fruit-Trees
Oxford, 1653
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15 Walter Blith
The English Improver Improved or the Survey of Husbandry Surveyed
3rd impression, London, 1652
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16 John Evelyn
Prospectus for Elysium Britannicum
17 John Evelyn
Sylva, or a Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions
London, 1664
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18 David Loggan
Oxonia illustrata
Oxford, 1675
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19 John Wilkins
Mathematicall Magick. Or, the Wonders That May Be Performed by Mechanicall Geometry
London, 1648
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20 John Parkinson
Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris
2nd impression, London, 1656
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21 Jacob Bobart
Catalogus plantarum horti medici Oxoniensis
Oxford, 1648
22 Abel Evans
Vertumnus. An Epistle to Mr. Jacob Bobart, Botany Professor to the University of Oxford, and Keeper of the Physick-Garden
Oxford, 1713
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23 Joseph Glanvill
The Vanity of Dogmatizing
London, 1661
24 Compound Microscope
English, unsigned, c.1680
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25 Refracting Telescope
English, unsigned, c.1680
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26 Robert Hooke
Micrographia: Or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses
London 1665
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Section 4: The Ark


27 Jean Buteo
Opera geometrica …De arca Noe, cuius formæ, capacitatisq; fuerit
Lyons, 1554
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28 Benito Arias Montano
Antiquitatum Iudaicarum libri IX
Leiden, 1593
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29 Ulisse Aldrovandi
De quadrupedibus solidipedibus volumen integrum
Bologna, 1616
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30 Walter Ralegh
The Historie of the World in Five Bookes
London, 1614
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31 Ole Worm
Museum Wormianum, seu historia rerum rariorum
Leiden, 1655
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32 John Tradescant
Musæum Tradescantianum: or, a Collection of Rarities Preserved at South-Lambeth Near London
London, 1656
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33 John Tradescant
Musæum Tradescantianum: or, a Collection of Rarities Preserved at South-Lambeth Near London
London, 1656
34 Bladder fish
35 Samuel Bochart
Hierozoicon, sive bipertitum opus animalibus sacræ scripturæ
London, 1663
36 John Wilkins
An Essay Towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language
London, 1668
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37 Athanasius Kircher
Arca Noë, in tres libros digesta
Amsterdam, 1675
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38 Portrait of John Wilkins
By Mary Beale
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Section 5: The Tower


39 John Amos Comenius
Janua linguarum reserata: The Gate of Languages Unlocked
8th edition, London, 1650
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40 John Amos Comenius, translated by Charles Hoole
Orbis sensualium pictus
3rd edition, London, 1672
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41 Francis Lodwick
A Common Writing
[London], 1647
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42 George Dalgarno
Ars signorum, vulgo character universalis et lingua philosophice
London, 1661
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43 John Wilkins
An Essay Towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language
London, 1668
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44 Cave Beck
The Universal Character
London, 1657
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45 John Dee’s Holy Table
Unsigned, late 17th century
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46 Athanasius Kircher
Turris Babel
Amsterdam, 1679
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47 Sir Thomas Browne
Pseudodoxia epidemica: or, Enquiries into Very Many Received Tenents, and Commonly Preserved Truths
London, 1646
48 Richard Verstegan
A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence in Antiquities
3rd edition, London, 1634
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49 Thomas Thorowgood
Iewes in America, or, Probabilities that the Americans Are of that Race
London, 1650
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50 Menasseh ben Israel
Hoc est, spes Israelis
Amsterdam, 1650
Section 6: The Temple


51 Hieronymo Prado and Juan Bautista Villalpando
In Ezechiel explanationes et apparatus vrbis, ac templi Hierosolymitani
3 vols, Rome, 1596–1605
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52 Matthias Hafenreffer
Templum Ezechielis
Tübingen, 1613
53 Francis Bacon
New Atlantis. A Worke Vnfinished
Appended to: Sylva Sylvarum: or a Natural Historie in Ten Centuries
London, 1626
54 John Lightfoot
The Temple: Especially as it Stood in the Dayes of Our Saviour
London, 1650
55 Samuel Lee
Orbis miraculum; or, the Temple of Solomon Pourtrayed by Scripture-Light
London, 1659
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56 Jacob Judah Leon
Retrato del tabernaculo de Moseh
Amsterdam, 1654
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57 Jacob Judah Leon
De templo Hierosolymitano … libri IV
Helmstadt, 1665
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58 Richard Cumberland
An Essay Towards the Recovery of the Jewish Measures and Weights
London, 1699
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59 Isaac Newton
The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended
London, 1728
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60 Christopher Wren
Parentalia: or, Memoirs of the Family of the Wrens
London, 1750
Section 7: Hartlib Circle


61 Gabriel Plattes
A Discovery of Infinite Treasure
London, 1639
62 Samuel Hartlib (ed.)
A Discoverie for Division or Setting Out of Land
London, 1653
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63 Gerard Boate
Irelands Naturall History
London, 1652
64 Sir Hugh Plat
The Jewel House of Art and Nature
London, 1653
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65 Samuel Hartlib (ed.)
The Reformed Common-Wealth of Bees
London, 1655
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66 John Dury
A Briefe Relation of That Which Hath Been Lately Attempted to Procure Ecclesiasticall Peace Amongst Protestants
London, 1641
67 John Dury
The Reformed Librarie-Keeper
London, 1650
68 John Milton
Paradise Lost
London, 1668
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Section 8: Biblical Criticism


69 Maps from Walter Ralegh
The Historie of the World in Five Books
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70 Henry Ainsworth
Annotations Upon the First Book of Moses, Called Genesis
[Amsterdam], 1616
71 Westminster Assembly of Divines
Annotations Upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament
2nd edition, 2 vols, London, 1651
72 Theodore Haak (trans.)
The Dutch Annotations Upon the Whole Bible
2 vols, London, 1657
73 Brian Walton (ed.)
Biblia sacra polyglotta
6 vols, London, 1653–57
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74 Johannes Buxtorf the elder
Tiberias sive commentarius Masorethicus
Basel, 1620
75 Brian Walton
Introductio ad lectionem linguarum orientalium
2nd edition, London, 1655
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76 John Owen
Of the Divine Originall, Authority, Self-Evidencing Light, and Power of the Scriptures
Oxford, 1659
77 Brian Walton
The Considerator Considered
London, 1659
78 Christian Ravis
A Discourse of the Oriental Tongues
London, 1648
79 Arnold Boate
De textus hebraici veteris testamenti certitudine
Paris, 1650
80 By William Fletcher
Portrait of James Ussher
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81 James Ussher
The Annals of the World
London, 1658
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82 By P. du Bosc
Portrait of Samuel Bochart
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83 Samuel Bochart
Geographiae sacrae pars prior
Caen, 1646
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84 Isaac La Peyrère
Men Before Adam
London, 1655–56
85 Georg Horn
Arca Noae sive historia imperiorum et regnorum
Leiden, 1666
86 Marmaduke Carver
A Discourse of the Terrestrial Paradise
London, 1666
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