John Dee
1527-1608
English alchemist, geographer and mathematician. Dee was educated at Cambridge, and also studied widely throughout Europe, returning to England with new astronomical instruments. De...
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John Dee was best known as a mathematician to his contemporaries, and it is in this capacity that Dee is most frequently mentioned for fifty years after his death. From mathematics he branched out int...
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John Dee represents many of the vital currents of scientific study in the Elizabethan Renaissance as well as some of its most notable weaknesses. Called by John Aubrey "one of the ornaments of his Age...
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John Dee
John Dee