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John Dee performing an experiment before Queen Elizabeth I. Oil painting by Henry Gillard Glindoni.

The posthumous works of Robert Hooke ... containing his Cutlerian lectures, and other discourses, read at the meetings of the illustrious Royal Society ... Illustrated with sculptures. To these discourses is prefixt the author's life, giving an account of his studies and employments, with an enumeration of the many experiments, instruments, contrivances and inventions, by him made and produc'd as Curator of Experiments to the Royal Society / publish'd by Richard Waller.

John Dee. Line engraving.

John Dee. Line engraving by W. Greatbach, 1842.

John Dee. Stipple engraving by W. P. Sherlock.

John Dee. Oil painting, ca. 1900.

John Dee's natural philosophy : between science and religion / Nicholas H. Clulee.

Raising spirits, making gold and swapping wives : the true adventures of Dr John Dee and Sir Edward Kelly / Michael Wilding.

John Dee : the world of an Elizabethan magus / Peter J. French.

John Dee and European Alchemy / by Urszula Szulakowska.

Monas hieroglyphica / [John Dee].

Secreta sublimia ad varios curandos morbos verissimis auctoritatibus illustrata additionibus nonnullis, flosculis item in marginedecorata, diligentissime castigata, nusquam impressa feliciter incipiunt  [Guglielmo].

The ground of artes: teaching the perfect worke and practise of arithmeticke, both in whole numbers and fractions, after a more easie and exacte forme than in former time hath been set foorth ... / Afterwards augmented by Mr. John Dee. And since enlarged ... By John Mellis ... Whereunto is added a compendium of interest calculated by J. N[orton].

Propaedeumata aphoristica Ioannis Dee Londinensis : de præstantioribus quibusdam naturæ virtutibus, ad Gerardum Mercatorem rupelmundanum, mathematicū & philosophum insignem.

The private diary of Dr. John Dee ... and the catalogue of his library of manuscripts, from the original manuscripts in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, and Trinity College Library, Cambridge / Edited by James Orchard Halliwell.

John Dee on astronomy = Propaedeumata aphoristica (1558 and 1568) / edited and translated, with general notes, by Wayne Shumaker ; with an introductory essay on Dee's mathematics and physics and his place in the scientific revolution by J.L. Heilbron.

A triple almanacke for the yeere of our Lorde God 1591, being the thirde from the leape yeare : wherein is conteyned, not onely the common accompt, which in this our realme is vsed, with the Romane kalender according to the late correction of Gregorie, but also, the true computation and reduction of the monethes ... referred principally to the meridian of London and for most respectes will serue for all Englande, and many other countries also.

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Dee, John, 1527-1608

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Propaedeumata aphoristica Ioannis Dee Londinensis : de præstantioribus quibusdam naturæ virtutibus, ad Gerardum Mercatorem rupelmundanum, mathematicū & philosophum insignem.

The private diary of Dr. John Dee ... and the catalogue of his library of manuscripts, from the original manuscripts in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, and Trinity College Library, Cambridge / Edited by James Orchard Halliwell.

John Dee on astronomy = Propaedeumata aphoristica (1558 and 1568) / edited and translated, with general notes, by Wayne Shumaker ; with an introductory essay on Dee's mathematics and physics and his place in the scientific revolution by J.L. Heilbron.