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008			130716s1999 enk ob 001 0 eng d
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020			_a9781107266858 (electronic bk.)
020			_a1107266858 (electronic bk.)
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035			_a(OCoLC)852896201
035			_a589165 _b(N$T)
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100	1		_aHarkness, Deborah E., _d1965-
245	1	0	_aJohn Dee's conversations with angels _h[electronic resource] : _bcabala, alchemy, and the end of nature / _cDeborah E. Harkness.
260			_aCambridge, U.K. ; _aNew York : _bCambridge University Press, _c1999.
300			_a1 online resource (xiii, 252 p.)
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 227-246) and index.
520	1		_a"John Dee (1527-1608/9) was a Cambridge-educated natural philosopher who served Queen Elizabeth I as court astrologer and who wrote works on many subjects including mathematics, alchemy, and astronomy. His most prolonged intellectual project, however, was conversations with angels using a crystal ball and a variety of assistants with visionary abilities. Dee's angel conversations have long puzzled scholars of early modern science and culture, who have wondered how to incorporate them within the broader contexts of early modern natural philosophy, religion, and society. Using Dee's marginal notes in library books, his manuscript diaries of the angel conversations, and a wide range of medieval and early modern treatises regarding nature and the apocalypse, Deborah Harkness argues that Dee's angel conversations represent a continuing development of his natural philosophy. The angel conversations, which included discussions of the natural world, the practice of natural philosophy, and the apocalypse, were conveyed to audiences from London to Prague, and took on new importance within these shifting philosophical, religious, and political situations. When set within these broader frameworks of Dee's intellectual interests and early modern culture, the angel conversations can be understood as an attempt to practice natural philosophy at a time when many thought that nature itself was coming to an end."--Jacket.
505	0	0	_tGenesis -- _tThe Colloquium of Angels: Prague, 1586 -- _tBuilding Jacob's Ladder: The Genesis of the Angel Conversations -- _tClimbing Jacob's Ladder: Angelology as Natural Philosophy -- _tRevelations -- _t"Then Commeth the Ende": Apocalypse, Natural Philosophy, and the Angel Conversations -- _t"The True Cabala": Reading the Book of Nature -- _tAdam's Alchemy: The Medicine of God and the Restitution of Nature.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
600	1	0	_aDee, John, _d1527-1608.
600	1	6	_aDee, John, _d1527-1608.
650	1	7	_aKabbala. _2gtt
650	1	7	_aAlchemie. _2gtt
650	1	7	_aEngelen. _2gtt
650	1	7	_aNatuurfilosofie. _2gtt
600	1	4	_aDee, John, _d1527-1608.
650		7	_aBODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Parapsychology / General _2bisacsh
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aHarkness, Deborah E., 1965- _tJohn Dee's conversations with angels. _dCambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999 _z052162228X _w(DLC) 98041097 _w(OCoLC)39748178
856	4	0	_3EBSCOhost _uhttp://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=589165
856	4	1	_3Table of contents _uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam026/98041097.html
856	4	2	_3Contributor biographical information _uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0827/98041097-b.html
856	4	2	_3Publisher description _uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam029/98041097.html
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