JOHN DEE'S NATURAL PHILOSOPHY - N. CLULEE 1st/1st 1988, Scarce ALCHEMY ASTROLOGY

  JOHN DEE'S NATURAL PHILOSOPHY: BETWEEN SCIENCE AND RELIGION — By Nicholas H. Clulee — 1st Edition / 1st Printing, 1988 HC/DJ — Scarce, Definitive Study of John Dee's Occult Philosophies

 Publisher: Routledge, London and New York (1988)

Scarce first edition from 1988 of "John Dee's Natural Philosophy: Between Science and Religion" by Nicholas H. Clulee, in very well preserved condition. The book is in excellent condition, with solid boards and binding. The pages are crisp and clean with no markings. The dust jacket shows minimal shelfwear, and remains uncut. 347 pages; illustrated. REVIEW FROM Routledge: This is the definitive study of John Dee and his intellectual career. This interpretation is far more detailed than any that came before and is an authoritative account for anyone interested in the history, literature and scientific developments of the Renaissance, or the occult. John Dee has fascinated successive generations. Mathematician, scientist, astrologer and magus at the court of Elizabeth I, he still provokes controversy. To some he is the genius whose contributions to navigation made possible the feats of Elizabethan explorers and colonists, to others an alchemist and charlatan. Thoroughly examining Dee's natural philosophy, this book provides a balanced evaluation of his place, and the role of the occult, in sixteenth-century intellectual history. It brings together insights from a study of Dee's writings, the available biographical material, and his sources as reflected in his extensive library and, more importantly, numerous surviving annotated volumes from it.