Elias Ashmole
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Elias Ashmole was an English antiquary, politician, officer of arms, astrologer, freemason and student of alchemy. Ashmole supported the royalist side during the English Civil War, serving in the arti
Ashmole c. 1688
Ashmole's birthplace in Lichfield
Ashmole by William Faithorne, 1656
Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum (1652), Ashmole's annotated compilation of alchemical poems in English
Baconian method
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The Baconian method is the investigative method developed by Francis Bacon, one of the founders of modern science, and thus a first formulation of a modern scientific method. The method was put forwar
Elias Ashmole
…life in diary form to serve as source material for a biography. His diary was posthumously published in 1717. Ashmole was an antiquary with a strong Baconian leaning towards the study of nature. His library reflected his intellectual outlook, including works on English history, law, numismatics, chorography…
Portrait of Francis Bacon