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John Dee's conversations with angels : cabala, alchemy, and the end of nature /

"John Dee (1527-1608/9) was a Cambridge-educated natural philosopher who served Queen Elizabeth I as court astrologer and who wrote works on many subjects including mathematics, alchemy, and astronomy. His most prolonged intellectual project, however, was conversations with angels using a cryst...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Harkness, Deborah, 1965-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Genesis
  • The Colloquium of Angels: Prague, 1586
  • Building Jacob's Ladder: The Genesis of the Angel Conversations
  • Climbing Jacob's Ladder: Angelology as Natural Philosophy
  • Revelations
  • "Then Commeth the Ende": Apocalypse, Natural Philosophy, and the Angel Conversations
  • "The True Cabala": Reading the Book of Nature
  • Adam's Alchemy: The Medicine of God and the Restitution of Nature.