Notes

These notes are collected from posts related to the tag John Dee.

John Dee was the original 007?

John Dee had an unwanted and unwarranted reputation as a wizard

In some minds John Dee is less of an historical

John Dee and his similarity with (and difference from) Faust

The angel Madimi castigating John Dee and Edward Kelley

Dee identified himself by Δ

Portrait of John Dee….

The spirits were urging the two couples to commit adultery…

Writing in his 1564 Monas Hieroglyphica

John Dee wrote the preface to a text on Euclid….

John Dee arguing for positions…

Glindoni painted skulls around Dee’s feet….

Dee’s friendly association with Catholic bishop “Bloody Bonner” suggests there’s

The navigator John Davis was one of John Dee’s buddies

Glindoni’s portrait of Dee demonstrating before the Queen

What happened to Dee?

John Dee lived on the south bank of the Thames…

John Dee would have you know he was no wizard

John Dee expresses his hopes and devotion…

From Charlotte Fell-Smith’s 1909 book on John Dee

John Dee was one of many who observed and recorded the supernova of 1572

Dee’s Angelic revelations included 48 tables out of 49…

Dee’s Angelic language….

Mathematics has been a vocation… John Dee

Selections from an essay on the role of mathematics in English universities

Protected: A new form of mathematics was established in later 16th

Charlotte Fell-Smith’s book on Dee

The accusations against Dee were many and various…

No courtier would publicly admit to such interests…

Backlund describes and transcribes two folios of fragmented material….

Dee’s Faustian pursuit of his own interests in defiance of

John Dee’s crystal…

John Dee’s Claude Glass

While John Dee’s interest in spirit communications has been considered

Some people think that John Dee was an inspiration for Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus

Dee turns to magic….

Faust, Dee and Cagliostro joined many others in the search for buried treasure

Charlotte Fell Smith: John Dee’s legacy and the history of his house at Mortlake

Wikipedia article on Kelley summarizes Dee’s interest in his angelic readings

The rising class of technological adepts – these “mecanicians”

John Dee’s motivations – and methods – were not much different from Faust’s

The Hieroglyphic embodies Dee’s vision of the unity of the Cosmos

A true & faithful relation of what passed for many yeers

Although astrology was never taught formally in English universities…

Edward Kelley, a Magician in the Act of invoking the Spirit of a Deceased Person

Digital Scans of the Enochian Manuscripts

Charles MacKay: Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds