'The career of John Dee has played a significant role in recent historiographical debates about the relationship between magic and science in the early modern period. This collection of interdisciplinary essays, which addresses a wide range of Dee's diverse intellectual activities (including mathematics, astronomy, navigation, astrology, alchemy, cabala and 'angel magic'), seeks to enlarge the scope of this debate, as well as presenting new archival and bibliographical discoveries relating to Dee and hiscollaborators and colleagues'--Dust jacket.

Product Description: 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...read more

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Product Description: Margaret Cavendish was probably one of the first women to fashion herself as an author. Her scholarly acceptance has been uneasy, but, as these essays aim to show, rather than self-absorbed or lacking in method, her own high-flying Phancies are the self-legitimating grounds of her discourse...read more

A translation of this classic account of the art of memory and the logic of linkage and combination, the two traditions deriving from the Classical world and the late medieval period, and becoming intertwined in the 16th Century. From this intertwining emerged a tradition, a grandiose project for an 'alphabet of the world' or 'Clavis Universalis'.