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Name: John Dee
Birth Date: July 13, 1527
Death Date: March 26, 1609
Nationality: British, English
Ethnicity: Welsh
Gender: Male

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Biography of John Dee
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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," Dee was an accomplished and influential figure in...
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Biography of John Dee
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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 into the study of astrology and, more profitably for...


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John Dee ( 13 July 1527 – 1608 or 1609 ) British mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and consultant to Queen Elizabeth I. He devoted much of his life to alchemy, divination, and Hermetic philosophy. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 Monas...


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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. Dee became astrologer to Queen Mary, but was imprisoned for...
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Renaissance Quarterly
John Dee: The Politics of Reading and Writing in the English Renaissance. (book reviews)
09/22/1997: 772 words, approx. 3 pages
William H. Sherman has written a spirited and learned book that challenges the Yatesian tradition of Dee as "the reincarnation of Merlin at the Tudor court" (xii). Against the scholarly and popular image of Dee as the solitary Hermetic philosopher, Sherman presents Dee...
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The Historian
The Queen's Conjurer: The Science and Magic of Dr. John Dee, Adviser to Queen Elizabeth I.(Book Review)
06/22/2003: 516 words, approx. 2 pages
The Queen's Conjurer: The Science and Magic of Dr. John Dee, Adviser to Queen Elizabeth I. By Benjamin Woolley. (New York: Henry Holt, 2001. Pp. xii, 355. $25.00.) Polymaths such as Dr. John Dee present biographers the special problem of keeping the...
 


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