John Dee - World of an Elizabethan Magus Tapa dura - 1989

Brand: Hippocrene Books, 0000-00-00. 2nd Edition. hardcover. Used: Good.

New York: Dorset Press, 1989. reissue. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Fine in fine dust jacket. Reissue. Hardcover. 243 pp (w/ bibliography & index). A biography of England's first Hermetic magus, a philosopher-magician, respected practical scientist, and immensely learned man who investigated all areas of knowledge. Through his teaching, writing, and friendships with many of the most important figures of the 16th-century Renaissance.

New York:: Dorset Press, (1989)., 1989. 8vo. x, 2], 243 pp. Frontis. portrait, 16 plates, index. Cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket. Near fine. ISBN: 0880294450 "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 centre 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." Reviews: 'A remarkable book.' -- Hugh Trevor-Roper, Sunday Times; 'This scholarly book,… Leer más