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100 1 $aHarkness, Deborah E.,$d1965-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98074390
245 10 $aJohn Dee's conversations with angels :$bcabala, alchemy, and the end of nature /$cDeborah E. Harkness.
260 $aNew York ;$aCambridge :$bCambridge University Press,$c1999.
300 $axiii, 252 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $gPt. I.$tGenesis.$g1.$tThe Colloquium of Angels: Prague, 1586.$g2.$tBuilding Jacob's Ladder: The Genesis of the Angel Conversations.$g3.$tClimbing Jacob's Ladder: Angelology as Natural Philosophy --$gPt. II.$tRevelations.$g4.$t"Then Commeth the Ende": Apocalypse, Natural Philosophy, and the Angel Conversations.$g5.$t"The True Cabala": Reading the Book of Nature.$g6.$tAdam's Alchemy: The Medicine of God and the Restitution of Nature.
520 1 $a"John Dee (1527-1608/9) was a Cambridge-educated natural philosopher who served Queen Elizabeth I as court astrologer and who wrote works on many subjects including mathematics, alchemy, and astronomy. His most prolonged intellectual project, however, was conversations with angels using a crystal ball and a variety of assistants with visionary abilities.
520 8 $aDee's angel conversations have long puzzled scholars of early modern science and culture, who have wondered how to incorporate them within the broader contexts of early modern natural philosophy, religion, and society. Using Dee's marginal notes in library books, his manuscript diaries of the angel conversations, and a wide range of medieval and early modern treatises regarding nature and the apocalypse, Deborah Harkness argues that Dee's angel conversations represent a continuing development of his natural philosophy.
520 8 $aThe angel conversations, which included discussions of the natural world, the practice of natural philosophy, and the apocalypse, were conveyed to audiences from London to Prague, and took on new importance within these shifting philosophical, religious, and political situations.
520 8 $aWhen set within these broader frameworks of Dee's intellectual interests and early modern culture, the angel conversations can be understood as an attempt to practice natural philosophy at a time when many thought that nature itself was coming to an end."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aDee, John,$d1527-1608.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79006490
852 00 $bglx$hBF1598.D5$iH37 1999