1570: Writes the Mathematical Preface to Euclid
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1570: Writes the Mathematical Preface to Euclid - Biography. Dee's preface to Billingsley's English Euclid defended mathematics as a practical and metaphysical discipline mediating visible and invisible orders.
Summary
Dee's preface to Billingsley's English Euclid defended mathematics as a practical and metaphysical discipline mediating visible and invisible orders.
Essay
Dee's preface to Billingsley's English Euclid defended mathematics as a practical and metaphysical discipline mediating visible and invisible orders.
The preface is one of the clearest statements of Dee's mathematical ideology and his claim for learned usefulness.
Bibliographical reference: William H. Sherman, John Dee: The Politics of Reading and Writing in the English Renaissance (University of Massachusetts Press), pp. 80-116; György E. Szőnyi, John Dee's Occultism: Magical Exaltation through Powerful Signs (SUNY Press), pp. 155-181; Stephen Clucas, 'Pythagorean Number Symbolism, Alchemy, and the Disciplina Noua of John Dee's Monas Hieroglyphica', pp. 1-8
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The preface is one of the clearest statements of Dee's mathematical ideology and his claim for learned usefulness.
William H. Sherman, John Dee: The Politics of Reading and Writing in the English Renaissance (University of Massachusetts Press), pp. 80-116; György E. Szőnyi, John Dee's Occultism: Magical Exaltation through Powerful Signs (SUNY Press), pp. 155-181; Stephen Clucas, 'Pythagorean Number Symbolism, Alchemy, and the Disciplina Noua of John Dee's Monas Hieroglyphica', pp. 1-8
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