Magic, Memory and Natural Philosophy in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

This collection of Stephen Clucas''s articles addresses the complex interactions between religion, natural philosophy and magic in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe. The essays on the Elizabethan mathematician and magus John Dee show that the angelic conversations of John Dee owed a significant debt to medieval magical traditions and how Dee''s attempts to communicate with spirits were use...