John Dee's Conversations with Angels
Subtitle: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 2, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780521027489
Subjects: History of science; Spirit communication & mediumship, spiritualism; Science; History & Surveys - Modern; Philosophy; Science/Mathematics; Europe - Great Britain - General; Mysticism; Dee, John, --1527-1608 Dee, John, --1527-1608; Dee, John,--1527-1608; History-Europe - Great Britain - General; Philosophy / Modern; Religion-Mysticism; Technology / General; History; Crystals
First sentence: Lutheran Budovec lived in Prague in the latter half of the sixteenth century, and when he noted in his journal the activities of John Dee he profiled a man far different from the "magus of Mortlake" with whom we are familiar.