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John Dee's Conversations with Angels Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature

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ISBN-10: 052162228X

ISBN-13: 9780521622288

Edition: 1999

Authors: Deborah Harkness

List price: $103.00
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Harkness contextualises Dee's angel conversations within the natural, philosophical, religious and social contexts of his time. She argues that they represent a continuing development of his earlier concerns and interests.
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Book details

List price: $103.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/13/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 268
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.53" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English

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List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations and conventions
Introduction
Genesis
The colloquium of angels: Prague, 1586
Building Jacob's ladder: the genesis of the angel conversations
Climbing Jacob's ladder: angelology as natural philosophy
Revelations
'Then commeth the ende': apocalypse, natural philosophy, and the angel conversations
'The true cabala': reading the book of nature
Adam's alchemy: the medicine of God and the restitution of nature
Epilogue
Select Bibliography
Index