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John Woodward founded the chair in geology at Cambridge in 1728, and his collection (the Woodwardian collection) is housed in its original cabinets in the Sedgwick Museum, which is part of the Earth Sciences Department, Cambridge, http://www.esc.cam.ac.uk/ Giovanni Francesco Vignani of Verona gave lectures in pharmaceutical chemistry in Cambridge in the 1680s, and his cabinet of curiosities was still being used for teaching in 1729 - apparently this cabinet remains to this day in Queens' College, Cambridge. Martin. >Dear all, > >I am looking for museums that have more or less authentic 16th-18th century >styled curiosity cabinets in their exposition. Do they exist? > >Thanks for the help > >Paul Lambers --------------------------------------------------------------------- Martin J. Head Senior Research Associate, and Visiting Fellow of Wolfson College Godwin Institute for Quaternary Research Department of Geography University of Cambridge Downing Place, Cambridge CB2 3EN ENGLAND, U.K. Phone: (01223) 339751 Fax: (01223) 333392 Email: mh300@cam.ac.uk Home page: http://www.cus.cam.ac.uk/~mh300 ======================================================================
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