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1550: Lectures on Euclid in Paris

1550; Mathematics

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1550: Lectures on Euclid in Paris - Biography. Dee's Paris lectures on Euclid helped establish his continental reputation as a mathematical teacher and interpreter.

Summary

Dee's Paris lectures on Euclid helped establish his continental reputation as a mathematical teacher and interpreter.

Essay

Dee's Paris lectures on Euclid helped establish his continental reputation as a mathematical teacher and interpreter.

The event anticipates the later Mathematical Preface and Dee's lifelong claim that mathematics mediates practical, natural, and metaphysical knowledge.

Bibliographical reference: Deborah E. Harkness, John Dee's Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature (Cambridge University Press), pp. 28-30; György E. Szőnyi, John Dee's Occultism: Magical Exaltation through Powerful Signs (SUNY Press), pp. 155-181

Date

1550

Category

Mathematics

Significance

The event anticipates the later Mathematical Preface and Dee's lifelong claim that mathematics mediates practical, natural, and metaphysical knowledge.

Bibliography

Deborah E. Harkness, John Dee's Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature (Cambridge University Press), pp. 28-30; György E. Szőnyi, John Dee's Occultism: Magical Exaltation through Powerful Signs (SUNY Press), pp. 155-181

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