Clucas
Section summaries of Stephen Clucas's scholarship on Dee.
AuthorStephen Clucas
TitlePythagorean Number Symbolism, Alchemy, and the Disciplina Noua of John Dee's Monas Hieroglyphica
SectionPythagorean Number Symbolism, Alchemy, and the Disciplina Noua
Clucas argues that Dee's Monas draws deeply on Pythagorean arithmology, especially Trithemian number symbolism, and that Dee imagined it as a disciplina noua broader than alchemy alone.
AuthorStephen Clucas
TitleThe Royal Typographer and the Alchemist: John Dee, Willem Silvius, and the Diagrammatic Alchemy of the Monas Hieroglyphica
SectionThe Royal Typographer and the Alchemist
Clucas examines Dee, Willem Silvius, and the diagrammatic/typographical presentation of the Monas to show how alchemical meaning was made through printed form and visual arrangement.