num_pages: 243
description:  John Dee was Renaissance England's first Hermetic Magus a philosopher-magician. He was also a respected practical scientist an immensely learned man who investigated all areas of knowledge. In this fine biography Peter French shows that not only magic and science but geography antiquarianism theology and the fine arts were fields in which Dee was deeply involved. Through his teaching writing and friendships with many of the most important figures of the age Dee was at the center of great affairs and had a profound influence on major developments in sixteenth-century England. Peter French places this extraordinary individual within his proper historical context describing the whole world of Renaissance science Platonism and Hermetic magic.
language: English
title: John Dee - World of an Elizabethan Magus
publisher: Dorset Press