John Dee

London 1527 - Mortlake 1608

Main works: Monas hieroglyphica (1564); Propaedeumata aphoristica (1568); Parallacticae commentationis praxosque (1573); Perfect Arte of Navigation (1577).

Bibliography: St. Clucas (ed.), John Dee: Interdisciplinary Studies in Renaissance Thought, Dordrecht, Springer 2006; N.H. Clulee, John Dee's Natural Philosophy: Between Science and Religion, London, Routledge 1988; Ch. Fell Smith, John Dee: 1527-1608, London, Constable and Company 1909; P.J. French, John Dee: The World of an Elizabethan Magus, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul 1972; M. Kugler, Astronomy in Elizabethan England, 1558 to 1585: John Dee, Thomas Digges, and Giordano Bruno, Montpellier, Université Paul Valéry 1982; W.H. Sherman, John Dee: The Politics of Reading and Writing in the English Renaissance, Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press 1995; B. Woolley, The Queen's Conjuror: The Science and Magic of Dr. John Dee, Adviser to Queen Elizabeth I, New York, Henry Holt and Company 2001; Fr. Yates, The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age, London; Routledge 2001; Fr. Yates, Renaissance Philosophers in Elizabethan England: John Dee and Giordano Bruno, in Ead., Lull & Bruno, collected essays vol. I, London, Routledge & Kegan 1982.

Catalogus librorum bibliothecæ externæ Mortlacensis D. Joh. Dee, Aº 1583, 6 Sept. [Transcribed from the MS. in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge.] List of Manuscripts formerly owned by Dr. John Dee. With preface and identifications by M. R. James, [London,] 1921, 39 p., in 4°.

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