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John Dee's Conversations with Angels

Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature

John Dee's Conversations with Angels( )
Author: Harkness, Deborah
ISBN:978-0-521-62228-8
Publication Date:Nov 1999
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $103.00
Book Description:

John Dee's angel conversations have been an enigmatic facet of Elizabethan England's most famous natural philosopher's life and work. Professor Harkness contextualizes Dee's angel conversations within the natural philosophical, religious and social contexts of his time philosophy, and the apocalypse, and argues that they represent a continuing development of John Dee's earlier concerns and interests. These conversations include discussions of the natural world, the practice of natural...
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Book Details
Pages:268
Detailed Subjects: Science / Philosophy & Social Aspects
Body, Mind & Spirit / Angels & Spirit Guides
Religion / Judaism / Kabbalah & Mysticism
Body, Mind & Spirit / Alchemy
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.318 x 9.438 x 0.936 Inches
Book Weight:1.36 Pounds
Author Biography
Harkness, Deborah (Author)
Deborah Harkness was born in 1965. She received a B. A. from Mount Holyoke College in 1986, a M. A. from Northwestern University in 1990, and a Ph. D. from the University of California at Davis in 1994. She is a professor of history at the University of Southern California. Harkness is a well-regarded historian of science and medicine, specializing in the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries. Her first novel, A Discovery of Witches, was published in 2011. She is the author of the All Souls Trilogy. In 2006, she began a wine blog entitled, Good Wine Under $20. It provides an online record of her search for the best, most affordable wines. She made The New York Times Bestseller List with The Book of Life and Shadow of Night.

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