Almost thirty years ago I presented my first paper on Dee, and the reception at the History of Science Society meeting was not so much hostile as vacant and indifferent. At a time when the “Scientific Revolution” had pride of place in the history of science, Dee could not hold a candle to Copernicus, Vesalius, Galileo, Descartes, Newton, or the other heroes of scientific progress. For close to the next quarter century I could not count on anyone in an audience knowing who Dee was, let alone recognizing him as of any importance. Because of these experiences I developed an almost ritual like formula of several sentences to introduce Dee and plug his claim to scholarly attention.
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H. Clulee, N. (2006). JOHN DEE’S NATURAL PHILOSOPHY REVISITED. In International Archives of the History of Ideas/Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Idees (Vol. 193, pp. 23–37). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4246-9_2
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