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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the
1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly
expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable,
high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
John Dee (1527-1608), popularly remembered as an alchemist and
spiritualist, was an enthusiastic scholar specialising in
mathematics and astronomy, and collected manuscripts, early printed
books and scientific instruments. Despite meeting Elizabeth I in
person, he never progressed in the Church, and died in poverty. The
four selections from his writings reissued here show Dee
painstakingly listing his books before a journey to Europe, and
appealing to the Queen for help when, after a catastrophic burglary
at his library and the destruction of his laboratory equipment, his
pay also failed to arrive. J. O. Halliwell (1842) reproduces the
full text of Dee's diaries with an index; James Crossley (1851)
transcribes Dee's appeals to the Queen; Bailey's book (1880), of
which only 20 copies were printed, contains a full commentary on
the last five years of the diaries; and M. R. James (1920)
researches the fate of Dee's books over the centuries.
By these indications and signs, for which they should be very
thankful, they themselves will be able to take vengeance on their
enemy. And I affirm (O King ) that it is not Aesop but Oedipus who
prompts me, for he presented these things to worthy souls, and
ventured for the first time to speak of these supreme mysteries of
Nature. I know perfectly well that there have been certain men who,
by the art of the scarab, have dissolved the eagle's egg and its
shell with pure albumen and have formed thereby a mixture of all;
afterwards they have reduced this mixture to a yellow liquid, by a
notable process, viz. by a ceaseless circulation just as the
scarabs roll their balls of earth.
This rare and very old manuscript discusses the general and rare
memorials pertaining to the perfect art of navigation. This present
two-fold treatise written in Old English, is written under the
names of three diverse proprieties, states or conditions of man.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition.
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