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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 77. Chapters: Abraomas Kulvietis, Albert d'Orville, Albert Hardenberg, Albert Pighius, Andreas Vesalius, Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, Anton Sander, Arnold Geulincx, Aubert Miraeus, Bruno de Witte, Charles Nerinckx, Cornelis de Bie, Cornelius Jansen, Cornelius Jansen (Bishop of Ghent), Cornelius Loos, Damiao de Gois, Denis Maguire, Dermot O'Hurley, Elbertus Leoninus, Ferdinand de Boisschot, Franciscus Sonnius, Francis Martin, Francis Sylvius, George Cassander, George de La Hele, George Wishart, Gerardus Mercator, Giles de Coninck, Henricus Canisius, Herman Egon, Prince of Furstenberg, Jacobus Boonen, Jacobus de la Torre, Jan Frans Vonck, Jan Ingenhousz, Jean-Pierre Minckelers, Jean Druys, Jean du Vergier de Hauranne, Jean Vendeville, Johannes Basius, Johannes Goropius Becanus, Johannes Stadius, Johannes Sturm, Johannes van den Driesche, Johannes van Neercassel, Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, John Dee, Josse Ravesteyn, Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, Justus de Harduwijn, Justus Lipsius, Lawrence Beyerlinck, Levinus Lemnius, Louis de Bourbon, Bishop of Liege, Marcin Kalinowski, Marinus van Reymerswaele, Mathias Hovius, Matthew Carew, Michael Baius, Nicholas Harpsfield, Nicolaas Everaerts, Nicolas Cleynaerts, Nicolaus van Esch, Pedro de Ribadeneira, Peter Joseph Triest, Peter Lombard (archbishop of Armagh), Peter Valesius Walsh, Peter van der Bosch, Petrus Codde, Petrus Gudelinus, Petrus Peckius the Elder, Petrus Peckius the Younger, Philip Verheyen, Pope Adrian VI, Rembert Dodoens, Robert Bellarmine, Sasbout Vosmeer, Servaes de Koninck, Thomas Wyndham (navigator), Viglius, Vincens Lunge, Walter Deloenus, Willem Hessels van Est, Willem van Enckevoirt, William Barclay (writer), William Damasus Lindanus, William Gahan, William Turnbull (bishop), Zeger Bernhard van Espen. Excerpt: John Dee (13 July 1527 1608 or 1609) was a Welsh mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, occultist, navigator, imperialist and consultant to Queen Elizabeth I. He devoted much of his life to the study of alchemy, divination and Hermetic philosophy. Dee straddled the worlds of science and magic just as they were becoming distinguishable. One of the most learned men of his age, he had been invited to lecture on advanced algebra at the University of Paris while still in his early twenties. Dee was an ardent promoter of mathematics and a respected astronomer, as well as a leading expert in navigation, having trained many of those who would conduct England's voyages of discovery. Simultaneously with these efforts, Dee immersed himself in the worlds of magic, astrology and Hermetic philosophy. He devoted much time and effort in the last thirty years or so of his life to attempting to commune with angels in order to learn the universal language of creation and bring about the pre-apocalyptic unity of mankind. A student of the Renaissance Neo-Platonism of Marsilio Ficino, Dee did not draw distinctions between his mathematical research and his investigations into Hermetic magic, angel summoning and divination. Instead he considered all of his activities to constitute different facets of the same quest: the search for a transcendent understanding of the divine forms which underlie the visible world, which Dee called "pure verities." In his lifetime Dee amassed one of the largest libraries in England. His high status as a scholar also allowed him to play a role in Elizabethan politics. He served as an occasional adviser and tutor to Elizabeth I and nurtured relationships with her ministers Francis Walsingham and William Cecil. Dee also tutored and enjoyed patronage relationships with Sir Philip Sidney, his uncle Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, and Edward Dyer. He also enjoyed patronage from Sir Christopher Hatton. Dee was born in Tower Ward, London, to a Welsh family from
