1582: Calendar reform counsel
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1582: Calendar reform counsel - Biography. Dee participated in debates over calendar reform, where mathematical correction was inseparable from confessional and political caution.
Summary
Dee participated in debates over calendar reform, where mathematical correction was inseparable from confessional and political caution.
Essay
Dee participated in debates over calendar reform, where mathematical correction was inseparable from confessional and political caution.
The episode shows that even technical expertise could become religiously charged in late sixteenth-century England.
Bibliographical reference: Glyn Parry, The Arch-Conjuror of England: John Dee (Yale University Press), pp. 170-183; Deborah E. Harkness, John Dee's Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature (Cambridge University Press), pp. 155-159
1582
Court service
The episode shows that even technical expertise could become religiously charged in late sixteenth-century England.
Glyn Parry, The Arch-Conjuror of England: John Dee (Yale University Press), pp. 170-183; Deborah E. Harkness, John Dee's Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature (Cambridge University Press), pp. 155-159
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