What is your take on placing Dee historically? Do you think that he was Late Renaissance, or “early modern”?
As you may know, there’s been a lot of debate on this, going back to Frances Yates calling him the last Renaissance magus. Since then, he’s been presented as belonging to the new scientific revolution, and (thesis, [...]
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As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, I have been looking for a copy of this book for some time, with no success. It’s a bit of a good-news-bad-news story.
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Depending on whether there’s a last minute change of course, we could be more or less directly in the path of Hurricane Ike this weekend. Suddenly, I’m not so happy about being next to a creek, or having that huge oak tree overhanging our roof.
Categories: miscellany, this daily life