John Dee: Interdisciplinary Studies in English Renaissance Thought [electronic resource] / edited by Stephen Clucas.

ASTRONOMY AND ASTROLOGY -- WINGS (OR STAIRS) TO THE HEAVENS -- LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON? -- JOHN DEE AND ASTROLOGY IN ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND -- DEE AND MARITIME AFFAIRS -- JOHN DEE'S INTEREST IN THE APPLICATION OF NAUTICAL SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS AND LAW TO ENGLISH NAVAL AFFAIRS -- JOHN DEE'S COLUMBIAN ENCOUNTER -- JOHN DEE'S NATURAL PHILOSOPHY REVISITED -- DEE AND THE OCCULT SCIENCES -- JOHN DEE AND THE KABBALAH -- THE ALCHEMICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF JOHN DEE'S MONAS HIEROGLYPHICA -- JOHN DEE AND THE MAGIC TABLES IN THE BOOK OF SOYGA -- DEE'S CONVERSATIONS WITH ANGELS -- PARACELSUS, SCRYING, AND THE LINGUA ADAMICA -- JOHN DEE'S ANGELIC CONVERSATIONS AND THE ARS NOTORIA -- THE NEXUS OF ANGELOLOGY, ESCHATOLOGY, AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHYIN JOHN DEE'S ANGEL CONVERSATIONS AND LIBRARY -- DEE AND KELLEY -- ABSENT PRESENCES -- IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF EDWARD KELLEY -- LIBRARY CATALOGUE AND BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS TO "JOHN DEE'S LIBRARY CATALOGUE" -- RECENT WORKS ON JOHN DEE (1988-2005).

The career of the sixteenth-century English mathematician and natural philosopher John Dee (1527-1609) has played a significant role in recent historiographical debates about the relationship between magic and science in the early modern period. This collection of interdisciplinary essays, which addresses a wide range of Dee's diverse intellectual activities (including mathematics, astronomy, navigation, astrology, alchemy, cabala and "angel magic") seeks to enlarge the scope of this debate, as well as presenting new archival and bibliographical discoveries relating to Dee and his collaborators and colleagues. The essays in the volume present new views on the nature of Dee's various projects, as well as the uses to which he put the books and manuscripts in his library at Mortlake (one of the largest private collections in Elizabethan England).