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Section 1: Bibles | ||
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1 The Holy Bible …Illustrated wth Chorographical Sculps. by J. Ogilby 2 vols, Cambridge, 1660 figure ![]() | ||
2 Portrait of John Ogilby By Sir Peter Lely figure ![]() | ||
3 The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and the New Cambridge, 1638 figure ![]() | ||
4 The Bible London, 1615 figure ![]() | ||
5 English Delftware Dish circa 1660–75 ![]() | ||
6 A Compleat Collection of Cutts of the Old Testament London, 1716 figure ![]() | ||
7 Nicolaes Visscher Figures of the Bible in Wich Almost Every History of the Holy Scriptures is Discribed Amsterdam, no date figure ![]() | ||
8 The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and the New London, 1660 ![]() | ||
Section 2: Samuel Hartlib | ||
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9 Samuel Hartlib to John Aubrey 8th March, 1653 figure ![]() | ||
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 | ||
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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 figure ![]() | ||
15 Walter Blith The English Improver Improved or the Survey of Husbandry Surveyed 3rd impression, London, 1652 figure ![]() | ||
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 figure ![]() | ||
18 David Loggan Oxonia illustrata Oxford, 1675 figure ![]() | ||
19 John Wilkins Mathematicall Magick. Or, the Wonders That May Be Performed by Mechanicall Geometry London, 1648 figure ![]() | ||
20 John Parkinson Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris 2nd impression, London, 1656 figure ![]() | ||
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 figure ![]() | ||
23 Joseph Glanvill The Vanity of Dogmatizing London, 1661 ![]() | ||
24 Compound Microscope English, unsigned, c.1680 figure ![]() | ||
25 Refracting Telescope English, unsigned, c.1680 figure ![]() | ||
26 Robert Hooke Micrographia: Or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses London 1665 figure ![]() | ||
Section 4: The Ark | ||
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27 Jean Buteo Opera geometrica …De arca Noe, cuius formæ, capacitatisq; fuerit Lyons, 1554 figure ![]() | ||
28 Benito Arias Montano Antiquitatum Iudaicarum libri IX Leiden, 1593 figure ![]() | ||
29 Ulisse Aldrovandi De quadrupedibus solidipedibus volumen integrum Bologna, 1616 figure ![]() | ||
30 Walter Ralegh The Historie of the World in Five Bookes London, 1614 figure ![]() | ||
31 Ole Worm Museum Wormianum, seu historia rerum rariorum Leiden, 1655 figure ![]() | ||
32 John Tradescant Musæum Tradescantianum: or, a Collection of Rarities Preserved at South-Lambeth Near London London, 1656 figure ![]() | ||
33 John Tradescant Musæum Tradescantianum: or, a Collection of Rarities Preserved at South-Lambeth Near London London, 1656 ![]() | ||
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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 figure ![]() | ||
37 Athanasius Kircher Arca Noë, in tres libros digesta Amsterdam, 1675 figure ![]() | ||
38 Portrait of John Wilkins By Mary Beale figure ![]() | ||
Section 5: The Tower | ||
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39 John Amos Comenius Janua linguarum reserata: The Gate of Languages Unlocked 8th edition, London, 1650 figure ![]() | ||
40 John Amos Comenius, translated by Charles Hoole Orbis sensualium pictus 3rd edition, London, 1672 figure ![]() | ||
41 Francis Lodwick A Common Writing [London], 1647 figure ![]() | ||
42 George Dalgarno Ars signorum, vulgo character universalis et lingua philosophice London, 1661 figure ![]() | ||
43 John Wilkins An Essay Towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language London, 1668 figure ![]() | ||
44 Cave Beck The Universal Character London, 1657 figure ![]() | ||
45 John Dee’s Holy Table Unsigned, late 17th century figure ![]() | ||
46 Athanasius Kircher Turris Babel Amsterdam, 1679 figure ![]() | ||
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 figure ![]() | ||
49 Thomas Thorowgood Iewes in America, or, Probabilities that the Americans Are of that Race London, 1650 figure ![]() | ||
50 Menasseh ben Israel Hoc est, spes Israelis Amsterdam, 1650 ![]() | ||
Section 6: The Temple | ||
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51 Hieronymo Prado and Juan Bautista Villalpando In Ezechiel explanationes et apparatus vrbis, ac templi Hierosolymitani 3 vols, Rome, 1596–1605 figure ![]() | ||
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 figure ![]() | ||
56 Jacob Judah Leon Retrato del tabernaculo de Moseh Amsterdam, 1654 figure ![]() | ||
57 Jacob Judah Leon De templo Hierosolymitano … libri IV Helmstadt, 1665 figure ![]() | ||
58 Richard Cumberland An Essay Towards the Recovery of the Jewish Measures and Weights London, 1699 figure ![]() | ||
59 Isaac Newton The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended London, 1728 figure ![]() | ||
60 Christopher Wren Parentalia: or, Memoirs of the Family of the Wrens London, 1750 ![]() | ||
Section 7: Hartlib Circle | ||
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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 figure ![]() | ||
63 Gerard Boate Irelands Naturall History London, 1652 ![]() | ||
64 Sir Hugh Plat The Jewel House of Art and Nature London, 1653 figure ![]() | ||
65 Samuel Hartlib (ed.) The Reformed Common-Wealth of Bees London, 1655 figure ![]() | ||
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 figure ![]() | ||
Section 8: Biblical Criticism | ||
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69 Maps from Walter Ralegh The Historie of the World in Five Books figure ![]() | ||
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 figure ![]() | ||
74 Johannes Buxtorf the elder Tiberias sive commentarius Masorethicus Basel, 1620 ![]() | ||
75 Brian Walton Introductio ad lectionem linguarum orientalium 2nd edition, London, 1655 figure ![]() | ||
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 figure ![]() | ||
81 James Ussher The Annals of the World London, 1658 figure ![]() | ||
82 By P. du Bosc Portrait of Samuel Bochart figure ![]() | ||
83 Samuel Bochart Geographiae sacrae pars prior Caen, 1646 figure ![]() | ||
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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