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.

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Makes a case for the necessity for interdisciplinary approaches to Renaissance thought Contains previously unpublished archival and bibliographical discoveries

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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).