Astrology, Magic, and Optics: Facets of John Dee's Early Natural Philosophy
1977; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 30; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/2859862
ISSN1935-0236
Autores Tópico(s)History of Science and Medicine
ResumoJohn Dee (1527-1608) has received increasing scholarly attention since the completion in 1952 of I. R. F. Calder's massive dissertation, ‘John Dee Studied as an English Neoplatonist,’ and with the publication of Peter French's John Dee: The World of an Elizabethan Magus, Dee's career and works should be fairly familiar. Prior to Calder's study, John Dee's press had been none too good, and serious scholars have labored under the burden of demonstrating Dee's place within some important intellectual tradition, so that he might be rescued from the opinion, based upon his penchant for occult studies, that he was ‘… the sport, the laughing-stock and die pray of daemons,’ or, in more modern form, ‘a rather silly man.’
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