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John Dee's Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature »
Authors: Deborah E. Harkness
ISBN-13: 9780521027489, ISBN-10: 0521027489
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: March 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Deborah E. Harkness
Deborah Harkness is Associate Professor of History at the University of Southern California. She is the prize-winning author of articles on John Dee's angel conversations and his household.
Book Synopsis
This book is about Elizabethan England's most famous 'scientist' or natural philosopher John Dee and his 'conversations with angels'.
Table of Contents
| List of Illustrations | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| List of Abbreviations and Conventions | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Pt. I | Genesis | |
| 1 | The Colloquium of Angels: Prague, 1586 | 9 |
| 2 | Building Jacob's Ladder: The Genesis of the Angel Conversations | 60 |
| 3 | Climbing Jacob's Ladder: Angelology as Natural Philosophy | 98 |
| Pt. II | Revelations | |
| 4 | "Then Commeth the Ende": Apocalypse, Natural Philosophy, and the Angel Conversations | 133 |
| 5 | "The True Cabala": Reading the Book of Nature | 157 |
| 6 | Adam's Alchemy: The Medicine of God and the Restitution of Nature | 195 |
| Epilogue | 215 | |
| Select Bibliography | 227 | |
| Index | 247 |
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