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ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: ALCHEMY JOHN DEE'S NATURAL PHILOSOPHY JOHN DEE'S NATURAL PHILOSOPHY Between Science and Religion NICHOLAS H. CLULEE Volume 2 I~ ~~o~1~~n~~;up LONDON AND NEW YORK Firstpublishedin1988 Thiseditionfirstpublishedin2013 byRoutledge 2ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingdon,Oxon,OX144RN SimultaneouslypublishedintheUSAandCanada byRoutledge 711ThirdAvenue,NewYork,NY10017 RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroup,aninformabusiness ©1988NicholasH.Clulee Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedorreproducedor utilisedinanyformorbyanyelectronic,mechanical,orothermeans,now knownorhereafterinvented,includingphotocopyingandrecording,orinany informationstorageorretrievalsystem,withoutpermissioninwritingfromthe publishers. Trademarknotice:Productorcorporatenamesmaybetrademarksorregistered trademarks,andareusedonlyforidentificationandexplanationwithoutintent toinfringe. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary ISBN:978-0-415-63753-4(Set) eISBN:978-0-203-08445-8(Set) ISBN:978-0-415-63774-9(Volume2) eISBN:978-0-203-08312-3(Volume2) Publisher’sNote Thepublisherhasgonetogreatlengthstoensurethequalityofthisreprintbut pointsoutthatsomeimperfectionsintheoriginalcopiesmaybeapparent. Disclaimer Thepublisherhasmadeeveryefforttotracecopyrightholdersandwould welcomecorrespondencefromthosetheyhavebeenunabletotrace. JOHN DEE'S NATURAL PHILOSOPHY Between Science and Religion NICHOLAS H. CLULEE ,~ ROUTLEDGE London and N ew York To my parents and Carol, Crystal, and Nicole First published in 1988 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE 29 West 35th Street, New York NY 10001 © Nicholas H. Clulee 1988 Phototypeset by Input Typesetting Ltd, London Printed in Great Britain by T. J. Press (Padstow) Ltd, Padstow, Cornwall All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Clulee, Nicholas H. John Dee's natural philosophy: between science and religion. 1. Science. Dee, John, 1527-1608 - Biographies I. Title II. Series 509'.2'4 Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data Clulee, Nicholas H. John Dee's natural philosophy: between science and religion/ Nicholas H. Clulee. p. cm. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Dee, John, 1527-1608. 2. Hermetism - England - History - 16th century. 3. Occultism - England - History - 16th century. 1. Title. BF1598.D5C58 1988 133' .092' 4-dcl9 ISBN 0 415 00625 2 (hb) o 415 03122 2 (pb) Well, well, It is time for some to lay hold on wisdome, and to ludge truly of thinges: and not so to expound the Holy word, all by Allegories: as to Neglect the wisdome, power and Goodness of God, in, and by his Creatures, and Creation to be seen and learned .... The whole Frame of Gods Creatures, (which is the whole world,) is to vs, a bright glasse: from which, by reflex ion , reboundeth to our knowledge and perceiuerance, Beames, and Radiations: repre senting the Image of his Infinite goodness, Omnipotency, and wisdome. John Dee, Mathematicall Praeface Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me. It was then the place of a long, centuries-old murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between one parchment and another, a living thing, a receptacle of powers not to be ruled by a human mind, a treasure of secrets emanated by many minds, surviving the death of those who had produced them or had been their conveyors. Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose CONTENTS List of Illustrations IX Preface Xl Abbreviations XIV 1 JOHN DEE AND RENAISSANCE INTELLECTUAL HISTORY PART ONE: THE PROPAEDEUMATA APHORIST/CA, 1558 19 II 'OUTLANDISH AND HOMISH STUDIES AND EXERCISES PHILOSOPHICALL' 21 Cambridge and Louvain 22 Patronage and Private Study 29 III THE OUTSTANDING VIRTUES OF NATURE 39 Astrology 39 Astrological Physics and Optics 42 Optics, Mathematics, and Nature 52 Optics, Magic, and Empirical Research 64 Conclusion 70 PART TWO: THE MONAS HIEROGLYPHICA, 1564 75 IV THE HIEROGLYPHICS OF NATURE 77 The Arbor Raritatis and Hieroglyphical Writing 81 The Alphabet of Nature 86 The Discourse of Alchemy 96 The Writing of Things 105 Vll CONTENTS V THE GREAT METAPHYSICAL REVOLUTION 116 Aphorisms and Theorems 116 The Office of the Adept 121 The Unity of Knowledge and the Ancient Theology 125 Magia 135 PART THREE: THE MATHEMATICALL PRAEFACE, 1570 143 VI VIA MATHEMATICA 145 'Thynges Mathematical!' 149 Philosophy, Mathematics, and Technology 154 Philosophy, Mathematics, and Science 162 Philosophy, Mathematics, and Magic 166 Archemastrie 170 VII THE VAGARIES OF PATRONAGE, 1565-1583 177 Exploration and Imperial Ideology 180 Aristotle in Search of Alexander 189 PART FOUR: THE LIBRI MYSTERIORUM, 1583-1589 201 VIII THE MYSTICAL AND SUPERMETAPHYSICAL PHILOSOPHY 203 Dee, Kelley, and the Spirits 204 The Books of Enoch 208 The Prophets of Prague 220 IX CONCLUSION 231 John Dee 231 Magic and the Occult in the Renaissance 239 Notes 242 Bibliography 302 Index 337 Vlll ILLUSTRATIONS between pages 178 and 179 2.1 Title page, Propaedeumata aphoristica, 1558 4.1 Monas hieroglyphica, Dee, Monas hieroglyphica 4.2 Title page, Monas hieroglyphica, 1564 4.3 'Arbor raritatis', Dee, Monas hieroglyphica 4.4 'Y' moralised, Tory, Champ jleury 4.5 Point, line, circle, Dee, Monas hieroglyphica 4.6 Monas and cosmos, Dee, Monas hieroglyphica 4.7 Construction of '1', Tory, Champ jleury 4.8 'I' and the Golden Chain, Tory, Champ jleury 4.9 'I' and the Muses, Tory, Champ jleury 4.10 '0' and the Liberal Arts, Tory, Champ jleury 4.11 Signs of the planets generated from Monas, Dee, Monas hieroglyphica 4.12 Alchemical vessels generated from Monas, Dee, Monas hieroglyphica 4.13 The 'exaltation of the moon and the sun by the science of the elements', Dee, Monas hieroglyphica 4.14 Numbers, weights, measures, Dee, Monas hieroglyphica 4.15 Title page, Joannes Pantheus, Voarchadumia, 1559 4.16 Dee's notes, Pantheus, Voarchadumia 4.17 The genesis of lunar mercury, Dee, Monas hieroglyphica 4.18 The seven stages, Dee, Monas hierogtyphica 4.19 The celestial egg, Dee, Monas hierogtyphica 4.20 The seven celestial revolutions, Dee, Monas hierogtyphica IX
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