John Dee's Library Catalogue

John Dee's Library Catalogue
Author: Richard Julian Roberts
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 458
Release: 1990
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

John Dee (1527-1609) has emerged as one of the most influential figures in the intellectual history of Tudor England. Though best known in his own time as a mathematician, he had a host of other interests (including navigation, astrology and astronomy, cabbala, alchemy, paracelsian medicine, and Welsh history) and was one of the first scholars to advocate collecting manuscripts from the dissolved monastic libraries. Indeed his own library was perhaps the largest assembled in England by one man before 1600. This study, which includes a facsimile of the detailed catalogue of 1583, recounts for the first time the growth of Dee's library, the raid made upon it during his absence in Poland, and its dispersal after his death. The book also describes the location of his surviving books and manuscripts.

Arguing with Angels

Arguing with Angels
Author: Egil Asprem
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2012-04-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1438441924

This fascinating work explores John Dee's Enochian magic and the history of its reception. Dee (1527–1608/9), an accomplished natural philosopher and member of Queen Elizabeth I's court, was also an esoteric researcher whose diaries detail years of conversations with angels achieved with the aid of crystal-gazer Edward Kelley. His Enochian magic offers a method for contacting angels and demons based on secrets found in the apocryphal Book of Enoch. Examining this magical system from its Renaissance origins to present day occultism, Egil Asprem shows how the reception of Dee's magic is replete with struggles to construct and negotiate authoritative interpretational frameworks for doing magic. Arguing with Angels offers a novel, nuanced approach to questions about how ritual magic has survived the advent of modernity and demonstrates the ways in which modern culture has recreated magical discourse.

The Queen's Conjurer

The Queen's Conjurer
Author: Benjamin Woolley
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2002-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780805065107

Although his accomplishments were substantial-he became a trusted confidante to Queen Elizabeth I, inspired the formation of the British Empire, and plotted voyages to the New World-John Dee's story has been largely lost to history. In The Queen's Conjurer, Benjamin Woolley brings to life the tale of one of the most colorful characters of the Renaissance. In the midst of a pivotal era when the age of superstition collided with the world of science and reason, Dee's mathematics anticipated Newton by nearly a century, and his mapmaking and navigation were critical to exploration. Obsessed with alchemy, astrology, and mysticism, his library was one of the finest in Europe, a vast compendium of thousands of volumes. Yet, despite his powerful position and prodigious intellect, Dee died in poverty and obscurity, reviled and pitied as a madman. Written with flair and vigor, and based on numerous surviving diaries of the period, The Queen's Conjurer is a highly readable account of an extraordinary and nearly forgotten life.

The Perfect Art of Navigation

The Perfect Art of Navigation
Author: John Dee
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2014-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9781497915107

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition.

John Dee

John Dee
Author: Charles Fell Smith
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 1909
Genre:
ISBN:

The Life of Dr. John Dee (1527 - 1608)

The Life of Dr. John Dee (1527 - 1608)
Author: Charlotte Fell Smith
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2014-07-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1291940413

John Dee was a much respected mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, occultist, alchemist and adviser to Queen Elizabeth I, but subsequently derided as a conjurer and a trickster. Dee became Queen Elizabeth's trusted advisor on astrological and scientific matters, choosing her coronation date himself. From the 1550s through the 1570s, he served as an advisor to England's voyages of discovery, providing technical assistance in navigation and ideological backing in the creation of a ""British Empire"" Dee's library, at 4000 volumes, was the largest philosophical and scientific library collection in Elizabethan England. Queen Elizabeth finally made him Warden of Christ's College, Manchester, in 1595

Autobiographical Tracts of Dr. John Dee

Autobiographical Tracts of Dr. John Dee
Author: John 1527-1608 Dee
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2021-09-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781013645709

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John Dee

John Dee
Author: Gerald Suster
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2003-08-08
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9781556434723

Although revered in his own time, John Dee (1527-1608) was until recently regarded as an isolated crank on the margins of Tudor history. This anthology of Dee's writings illustrates his diverse interests and his central position in the history of Renaissance thought and the development of Western Magic. Dee's celebrated Preface to Euclid is included along with selections from his Spiritual Diaries and letters to other mystics and royals. In addition to Hermetic and Cabalistic philosophy, mathematics, astronomy, astrology, and navigation are also covered.