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John Dee: The World of an Elizabethan Magus
by Peter French
Dorset Press, New York, 1972, 243pp, HC.
[England, 16C]
Chapters
- John Dee's Reputatin
- The Development of an English Magus
- Elizabethan England's Greatest Library
- John Dee and the Hermetic Philosophy
- Magic, Science and Religion
- John Dee and the Sidney Circle
- John Dee and the Mechanicians: Applied Science in Elizabethan England
- John Dee as an Antiquarian
Illustrations
- Letter from Dee to Queen Elizabeth
- Frontispiece to Meric Casaubon's A True and Faithful Relation of
What Passed for many Years Between Dr. John Dee...and Some Spirits
- Figures illustrating the Lullian art
- The divine mens descending into the human body
- Correspondencies between the microcosm and the macrocosm.
- Title page of John Dee's Monas Hieroglyphica
- The structure of the universe
- The function of the senses, imagination and intellect in the mind
- The Copernican universe
- Dee's minutes of the first angelic conference at which Edward Kelley
acted as a medium
- Design for John Dee's great seal
- Correlation of the monochordum mundi with the elemental, planetary
and angelic spheres
- John Dee's 'Groundplat' for the English Euclide
- John Dee's original title page for the General and Rare Memorials
- A page from John Dee's 'Of Famous and Rich Discoveries'
- Letter from John Dee to John Stow