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ISBN10: 1402042450, ISBN13: 9781402042454, [publisher: Springer Netherlands] Hardcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Intellectual History and the Identity of John Dee In April 1995, at Birkbeck College, University of London, an interdisciplinary colloquium was held so that scholars from diverse fields and areas of expertise could 1 exchange views on the life and work of John Dee. Working in a variety of fields - intellectual history, history of navigation, history of medicine, history of science, history of mathematics, bibliography and manuscript studies - we had all been drawn to Dee by particular aspects of his work, and participating in the colloquium was to c- front other narratives about Dee's career: an experience which was both bewildering and instructive. Perhaps more than any other intellectual figure of the English Renaissance Dee has been fragmented and dispersed across numerous disciplines, and the various attempts to re-integrate his multiplied image by reference to a particular world-view or philosophical outlook have failed to bring him into focus. This volume records the diversity of scholarly approaches to John Dee which have emerged since the synthetic accounts of I. R. F. Calder, Frances Yates and Peter French. If these approaches have not succeeded in resolving the problematic multiplicity of Dee's activities, they will at least deepen our understanding of specific and local areas of his intellectual life, and rend ...
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ISBN10: 1402042450, ISBN13: 9781402042454, [publisher: Springer Netherlands] Hardcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Intellectual History and the Identity of John Dee In April 1995, at Birkbeck College, University of London, an interdisciplinary colloquium was held so that scholars from diverse fields and areas of expertise could 1 exchange views on the life and work of John Dee. Working in a variety of fields - intellectual history, history of navigation, history of medicine, history of science, history of mathematics, bibliography and manuscript studies - we had all been drawn to Dee by particular aspects of his work, and participating in the colloquium was to c- front other narratives about Dee's career: an experience which was both bewildering and instructive. Perhaps more than any other intellectual figure of the English Renaissance Dee has been fragmented and dispersed across numerous disciplines, and the various attempts to re-integrate his multiplied image by reference to a particular world-view or philosophical outlook have failed to bring him into focus. This volume records the diversity of scholarly approaches to John Dee which have emerged since the synthetic accounts of I. R. F. Calder, Frances Yates and Peter French. If these approaches have not succeeded in resolving the problematic multiplicity of Dee's activities, they will at least deepen our understanding of specific and local areas of his intellectual life, and rend ...
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ISBN10: 1402042450, ISBN13: 9781402042454, [publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.] Hardcover The career of the sixteenth-century English mathematician and natural philosopher John Dee has played a significant role in historiographical debates about the relationship between magic and science in the early modern period. This work addresses a range of Dee's diverse intellectual activities and seeks to enlarge the scope of this debate. Editor(s): Clucas, Stephen. Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees. Num Pages: 368 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRQX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 297 x 210 x 22. Weight in Grams: 730. . 2006. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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