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John Dee: Interdisciplinary Studies in English Renaissance Thought

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Editors:
  1. Stephen Clucas

    1. University of London, Birkbeck, U.K.

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  • The first book-length study of Dee which covers all aspects of his career
  • Uses Dee's career to interrogate the relationship between early modern science and magic
  • Presents important new perspectives on Dee's mathematical work and his "angelic conversations"
  • Makes a case for the necessity for interdisciplinary approaches to Renaissance thought
  • Contains previously unpublished archival and bibliographical discoveries

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVII
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  2. INTRODUCTION

    • Stephen Clucas
    Pages 1-22

  3. JOHN DEE’S NATURAL PHILOSOPHY REVISITED

    • NICHOLAS H. CLULEE
    Pages 23-37

  4. ASTRONOMY AND ASTROLOGY

    1. Front Matter

      Pages I-XVII
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    2. WINGS (OR STAIRS) TO THE HEAVENS

      • ROBERT GOULDING
      Pages 41-63

    3. LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON?

      • Stephen Johnston
      Pages 65-84

    4. JOHN DEE AND ASTROLOGY IN ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND

      • RICHARD DUNN
      Pages 85-94

  5. DEE AND MARITIME AFFAIRS

    1. Front Matter

      Pages I-XVII
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    2. JOHN DEE’S INTEREST IN THE APPLICATION OF NAUTICAL SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS AND LAW TO ENGLISH NAVAL AFFAIRS

      • ROBERT BALDWIN
      Pages 97-130

    3. JOHN DEE’S COLUMBIAN ENCOUNTER

      • WILLIAM H. SHERMAN
      Pages 131-140

  6. DEE AND THE OCCULT SCIENCES

    1. Front Matter

      Pages I-XVII
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    2. JOHN DEE AND THE KABBALAH

      • KAREN DE LEÓN-JONES
      Pages 143-158

    3. THE ALCHEMICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF JOHN DEE’S MONAS HIEROGLYPHICA

      • FEDERICO CAVALLARO
      Pages 159-176

    4. JOHN DEE AND THE MAGIC TABLES IN THE BOOK OF SOYGA

      • J. REEDS
      Pages 177-204

  7. DEE’S CONVERSATIONS WITH ANGELS

    1. Front Matter

      Pages I-XVII
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    2. PARACELSUS, SCRYING, AND THE LINGUA ADAMICA

      • GYÖRGY E. SZÖNYI
      Pages 207-229

    3. JOHN DEE’S ANGELIC CONVERSATIONS AND THE ARS NOTORIA

      • Stephen Clucas
      Pages 231-273

    4. THE NEXUS OF ANGELOLOGY, ESCHATOLOGY, AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHYIN JOHN DEE’S ANGEL CONVERSATIONS AND LIBRARY

      • DEBORAH E. HARKNESS
      Pages 275-282

  8. DEE AND KELLEY

    1. Front Matter

      Pages I-XVII
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    2. ABSENT PRESENCES

      • SUSAN BASSNETT
      Pages 285-294
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Intellectual History and the Identity of John Dee In April 1995, at Birkbeck College, University of London, an interdisciplinary colloquium was held so that scholars from diverse fields and areas of expertise could 1 exchange views on the life and work of John Dee. Working in a variety of fields – intellectual history, history of navigation, history of medicine, history of science, history of mathematics, bibliography and manuscript studies – we had all been drawn to Dee by particular aspects of his work, and participating in the colloquium was to c- front other narratives about Dee’s career: an experience which was both bewildering and instructive. Perhaps more than any other intellectual figure of the English Renaissance Dee has been fragmented and dispersed across numerous disciplines, and the various attempts to re-integrate his multiplied image by reference to a particular world-view or philosophical outlook have failed to bring him into focus. This volume records the diversity of scholarly approaches to John Dee which have emerged since the synthetic accounts of I. R. F. Calder, Frances Yates and Peter French. If these approaches have not succeeded in resolving the problematic multiplicity of Dee’s activities, they will at least deepen our understanding of specific and local areas of his intellectual life, and render them more historiographically legible.

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"John Dee has proved an endlessly fascinating subject for students of early modern thought almost from the moment of his death. This collection … is a welcome contribution to a burgeoning field. … the collection is marvellously meticulous, engaging and learned. No student of the Dee, sixteenth-century mathematics or early modern magic can afford to ignore it." (Adam Mosley, British Journal for the History of Science, Vol. 41 (1), 2008)

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  • University of London, Birkbeck, U.K.

    Stephen Clucas

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