John Dee

Cover -- Table Of Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Plates -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Intellectual History and the Identity of John Dee -- 1. John Dee's Natural Philosophy Revisited -- Part one: Astronomy and astrology -- 2. Wings (or Stairs) to the Heavens: The Parallactic Treatises of John Dee and Thomas Digges -- 3. Like Father, Like Son? John Dee, Thomas Digges and the Identity of the Mathematician -- 4. John Dee and Astrology in Elizabethan England -- Part two: Dee and maritime affairs -- 5. John Dee's Interest in the Application of Nautical Science, Mathematics and Law to English Naval Affairs -- 6. John Dee's Columbian Encounter -- Part three: Dee and the occult sciences -- 7. John Dee and the Kabbalah -- 8. The Alchemical Significance of John Dee's Monas Hieroglyphica -- 9. John Dee and the Magic Tables in the Book of Soyga -- Part four: Dee's conversation with angels -- 10. Paracelsus, Scrying and the Lingua Adamica: Contexts For John Dee's Angel Magic -- 11. John Dee's Angelic Conversations and the Ars Notoria: Renaissance Magic and Mediaeval Theurgy -- 12. The Nexus of Angelology, Eschatology and Natural Philosophy in John Dee's Angel Conversations and Library -- Part five: Dee and Kelley -- 13. Absent Presences: Edward Kelley's Family in the Writings of John Dee -- 14. In the Footsteps of Edward Kelley: Some Manuscript References at the Royal Library in Copenhagen Concerning an Alchemical Circle around John Dee and Edward Kelley -- Part six: Library catalogue and bibliography -- 15. Additions and Corrections to "John Dee's Library Catalogue" -- 16. Recent works on John Dee (1988-2005): A Select Bibiliography -- Index -- Last Page.