Research Catalog

Title

John Dee : interdisciplinary studies in English Renaissance thought / edited by Stephen Clucas.

Publication

Dordrecht, The Netherlands : Springer, c2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

Clucas, Stephen, 1960-

Description

xvii, 366 p. : ill., facsims.; 25 cm.

Summary

"The career of John Dee has played a significant role in recent historiographical debates about the relationship between magic and science in the early modern period. This collection of interdisciplinary essays, which addresses a wide range of Dee's diverse intellectual activities (including mathematics, astronomy, navigation, astrology, alchemy, cabala and "angel magic"), seeks to enlarge the scope of this debate, as well as presenting new archival and bibliographical discoveries relating to Dee and his collaborators and colleagues"--Dust jacket.

Series Statement

Archives internationales d' histoire des idees = International archives of the history of ideas ; 193

Uniform Title

Archives internationales d'histoire des idées 193.

Subject

• Dee, John, 1527-1608
• 1500-1599
• Science > History > 16th century
• Science and magic
• Occultism > England > History > 16th century
• Alchemy > History > 16th century
• Philosophy
• Science > History
• Mathematics_$xHistory
• Linguistics

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Sixteen contributions, based on presentations made at an interdisciplinary colloquium held at Birkbeck College, University of London, Apr. 1995.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

ASTRONOMY AND ASTROLOGY -- WINGS (OR STAIRS) TO THE HEAVENS -- LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON? -- JOHN DEE AND ASTROLOGY IN ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND -- DEE AND MARITIME AFFAIRS -- JOHN DEE’S INTEREST IN THE APPLICATION OF NAUTICAL SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS AND LAW TO ENGLISH NAVAL AFFAIRS -- JOHN DEE’S COLUMBIAN ENCOUNTER -- JOHN DEE’S NATURAL PHILOSOPHY REVISITED -- DEE AND THE OCCULT SCIENCES -- JOHN DEE AND THE KABBALAH -- THE ALCHEMICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF JOHN DEE’S MONAS HIEROGLYPHICA -- JOHN DEE AND THE MAGIC TABLES IN THE BOOK OF SOYGA -- DEE’S CONVERSATIONS WITH ANGELS -- PARACELSUS, SCRYING, AND THE LINGUA ADAMICA -- JOHN DEE’S ANGELIC CONVERSATIONS AND THE ARS NOTORIA -- THE NEXUS OF ANGELOLOGY, ESCHATOLOGY, AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHYIN JOHN DEE’S ANGEL CONVERSATIONS AND LIBRARY -- DEE AND KELLEY -- ABSENT PRESENCES -- IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF EDWARD KELLEY -- LIBRARY CATALOGUE AND BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS TO “JOHN DEE’S LIBRARY CATALOGUE” -- RECENT WORKS ON JOHN DEE (1988-2005).

ISBN

• 1402042450
• 9781402042454

OCLC

• 69105495
• SCSB-10858602

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library