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Artifacts
The British Museum holds several items once owned by Dee and associated with the spiritual conferences:
* Dee's Speculum or Mirror (an obsidian Aztec cult object in the shape of a hand-mirror, brought to Europe in the late 1520s), which was once owned by Horace Walpole.
* The small wax seals used to support the legs of Dee's "table of practice" (the table at which the scrying was performed).
* The large, elaborately-decorated wax "Seal of God", used to support the "shew-stone", the crystal ball used for scrying.
* A gold amulet engraved with a representation of one of Kelley's visions.
* A crystal globe, six centimetres in diameter. This item remained unnoticed for many years in the mineral collection; possibly the one owned by Dee, but the provenance of this object is less certain than that of the others.[30]
In December 2004, both a shew stone (a stone used for scrying) formerly belonging to Dee and a mid-1600s explanation of its use written by Nicholas Culpeper were stolen from the Science Museum in London; they were recovered shortly afterwards.[31]
Dee in fiction
Dee has become a popular figure in literary works, particularly fiction or fantasy set during his lifetime or which deals with magic or the occult. William Shakespeare may have modelled the character of Prospero in The Tempest on Dee;[13] Woolley (see below), suggests that Edmund Spenser refers to Dee in The Faerie Queen (1596).
Ben Jonson includes a scrying session, during which the spirits render up the name of Dee, in his play The Alchemist (1610).
The Irish Gothic novelist Charles Maturin refers to Dee and Kelley in his novel Melmoth the Wanderer (1820). H. P. Lovecraft's short story "The Dunwich Horror" (1929) credits Dee with translating the Necronomicon into English; and John Crowley's sequence of novels Ægypt includes Dee, Edward Kelley, and Giordano Bruno as characters. In Umberto Eco's book Foucault's Pendulum, Dee is presented as a central character in the "Plan" (the overall conspiracy that the book is concerned with) and in one of the main character (Belbo)'s fictions concerning it. A series of books by Armin Shimerman fictionalizes Dee's life by providing a basis in science fiction for his supposed magic, and he is a major character in Diana Redmond's time-travel children's book Joshua Cross & the Queen's Conjuror (2004). Dee also appears as a character in The Ringed Castle (1971), part of Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles. He is presented as an associate of Robert Dudley in "The Queen's Fool" (2004) by Philippa Gregory. He is also mentioned and referred to in the novel "Fire Rose" by Mercedes Lackey.
Dee is a major character in various fantasy novels set in Elizabethan England, such as Robin Jarvis's novel Deathscent. Lisa Goldstein's novel The Alchemist's Door features Dee as the main character, who works with Rabbi Judah Loew, a mystic who creates a golem to defend Prague's Jewish Quarter by preventing the door to the spirit world from opening and unleashing demons. Dee's assistant Edward Kelley appears in the novel as a villain. In Maxie's Demon a novel in Michael Scott Rohan's Spiral series, Dee is portrayed as idealistic and unworldly, with Kelley as an unscrupulous con man playing on his beliefs. Dee also appears in The Science of Discworld II: The Globe, by Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen and Terry Pratchett. The House of Doctor Dee, a novel by Peter Ackroyd, tells of the haunting of an old house in Clerkenwell by the spirit of Dee, its one-time owner. Dee appears in Alan Moore's comic book Promethea, as does the 19th-century occultist Aleister Crowley. Dee and Kelley are the main characters in Gustav Meyrink's 1927 "The Angel of the West Window."
He appears as a character in various film, television and radio productions, such as Derek Jarman's Jubilee; as the father of the character Ella in the Sky One TV series, Hex; and in the Doctor Who audio drama A Storm of Angels.
John Dee is the given name of the DC Comics supervillain Doctor Destiny, who, in the spirit of his namesake, uses both magic and science together to alter, control, and manifest dreams.
Notes
1. ^ Gerolamo Cardano (trans. by Jean Stoner) (2002). De Vita Propria (The Book of My Life). New York: New York Review of Books, viii.
2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Fell Smith, Charlotte (1909). John Dee: 1527 - 1608. London: Constable and Company.
3. ^ a b c Julian Roberts:A John Dee Chronology, 1509-1609. RENAISSANCE MAN: The Reconstructed Libraries of European Scholars: 1450-1700 Series One: The Books and Manuscripts of John Dee, 1527-1608. Adam Matthew Publications (2005). Retrieved on 27 October, 2006.
4. ^ a b (1792) "Mortlake". The Environs of London: County of Surrey 1: 364-88. Retrieved on 27 October 2006.
5. ^ a b Books owned by John Dee. St. John's College, Cambridge. Retrieved on 26 October, 2006.
6. ^ a b c d Dr. Robert Poole (2005-09-06). John Dee and the English Calendar: Science, Religion and Empire. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved on 26 October, 2006.
7. ^ Szönyi, György E. (2004). "John Dee and Early Modern Occult Philosophy". Literature Compass 1 (1): 1-12.
8. ^ a b c d Ken MacMillan (2001-04). "Discourse on history, geography, and law: John Dee and the limits of the British empire, 1576-80". Canadian Journal of History.
9. ^ Forshaw, Peter J. (2005). "The Early Alchemical Reception of John Dee's Monas Hieroglyphica". Ambix 52 (3): 247-269.
10. ^ John Dee (1527-1608): Alchemy - the Beginings of Chemistry. Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester (2005). Retrieved on 26 October, 2006.
11. ^ a b c d Stephen Johnston (1995). The identity of the mathematical practitioner in 16th-century England. Museum of the History of Science, Oxford. Retrieved on 27 October, 2006.
12. ^ Frank Klaassen (2002-08). "John Dee's Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature". Canadian Journal of History.
13. ^ a b c d e f Calder, I.R.F. (1952). John Dee Studied as an English Neo-Platonist. University of London. Retrieved on 26 October, 2006.
14. ^ "Dee, John". Encyclopædia Britannica. (2006). Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved on 27 October.
15. ^ a b c Meric Casaubon (1659 Republished by Magickal Childe (1992)). A True & Faithful Relation of What passed for many Yeers between Dr. John Dee (A Mathematician of Great Fame in Q. Eliz. and King James their Reignes) and some spirits. ISBN 0-939708-01-9.
16. ^ a b Dee, John. Quinti Libri Mysteriorum.
17. ^ a b c d e Mackay, Charles (1852). "4", Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. London: Office of the National Illustrated Library.
18. ^ History of the Alchemy Guild. International Alchemy Guild. Retrieved on 26 October, 2006.
19. ^ "John Dee". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th Ed.). (1911). London: Cambridge University Press.
20. ^ a b Fell Smith, Charlotte (1909). John Dee: 1527 - 1608: Appendix 1. London: Constable and Company.
21. ^ a b John Aubrey (1898). in Rev. Andrew Clark: Brief Lives chiefly of Contemporaries set down John Aubrey between the Years 1669 and 1696. Clarendon Press.
22. ^ a b c Walter I. Trattner (01-1964). "God and Expansion in Elizabethan England: John Dee, 1527-1583". Journal of the History of Ideas 25 (1): 17-34.
23. ^ Ron Heisler (1992). "John Dee and the Secret Societies". The Hermetic Journal.
24. ^ a b Katherine Neal (1999). The Rhetoric of Utility: Avoiding Occult Associations For Mathematics Through Profitability and Pleasure. University of Sydney. Retrieved on 27 October, 2006.
25. ^ Frances A. Yates (1987). Theatre of the World. London: Routledge, 7.
26. ^ Brian Vickers (1992-07). "Francis Bacon and the Progress of Knowledge". Journal of the History of Ideas 53 (3): 495-518.
27. ^ Stephen Johnston (1995). Like father, like son? John Dee, Thomas Digges and the identity of the mathematician. Museum of the History of Science, Oxford. Retrieved on 27 October, 2006.
28. ^ Gordon Rugg (2004-07). The Mystery of the Voynich Manuscript. Scientific American. Retrieved on 28 October, 2006.
29. ^ Jim Reeds (1996). John Dee and the Magic Tables in the Book of Soyga. Retrieved on 8 November, 2006.
30. ^ BSHM Gazetteer -- LONDON: British Museum, British Library and Science Museum. British Society for the History of Mathematics (2002-08). Retrieved on 27 October, 2006.
31. ^ Adam Fresco (2004-12-11). Museum thief spirits away old crystal ball. The Times. Retrieved on 27 October, 2006.
References
* Ackroyd, Peter The House of Doctor Dee Penguin (1993)
* Calder, I.R.F. John Dee Studied as an English Neo-Platonist University of London Dissertation (1952) Available online
* Casaubon, M. A True and Faithful Relation of What Passed for many Yeers Between Dr. John Dee... (1659) repr. "Magickal Childe" ISBN 0-939708-01-9 New York 1992)
* Dee, John Quinti Libri Mysteriorum. British Library, MS Sloane Collection 3188. Also available in a fair copy by Elias Ashmole, MS Sloane 3677.
* Dee, John John Dee's five books of mystery: original sourcebook of Enochian magic: from the collected works known as Mysteriorum libri quinque edited by Joseph H. Peterson, Boston: Weiser Books ISBN 1-57863-178-5.
* Fell Smith, Charlotte John Dee: 1527 - 1608. London: Constable and Company (1909) Available online.
* French, Peter J. John Dee: The World of an Elizabethan Magus. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul (1972)
* Woolley, Benjamin The Queen's Conjuror: The Science and Magic of Dr. John Dee, Adviser to Queen Elizabeth I. New York: Henry Holt and Company (2001)
External links
* Azogue: It is a section of the e-journal Azogue with original reproductions of Dee texts.
* John Dee reports of Dee and Kelley's conversations with Angels edited in PDF by Clay Holden:
o Mysteriorum Liber Primus (with Latin translations)
o Notes to Liber Primus by Clay Holden
o Mysteriorum Liber Secundus
o Mysteriorum Liber Tertius
* The J.W. Hamilton-Jones translation of Monas Hieroglyphica from Twilit Grotto: Archives of Western Esoterica
* The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee And the Catalog of His Library of Manuscripts at Project Gutenberg
* {MacTutor Biography|id=Dee}}
* http://www.maney.co.uk/contents/ambix/52-3 John Dee's Monas Hieroglyphica, Ambix Volume 52, Part 3 2005]
* http://www.map.twentythree.us/dee.html Alchemical Manchester - The Dee Connection] Contemporary article
NAME Dee, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dr Dee
SHORT DESCRIPTION British mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, occultist, alchemist and philosopher.
DATE OF BIRTH 13 July 1527
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH c. 1608
PLACE OF DEATH Mortlake, Surrey
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