John Dee's conversations with angels : cabala, alchemy, and the end of nature /
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| Author / Creator: | Harkness, Deborah E., 1965- |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999. |
| Description: | xiii, 252 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4112441 |
Table of Contents:
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations and conventions
- Introduction
- Part I. Genesis
- 1. The colloquium of angels: Prague, 1586
- 2. Building Jacob's ladder: the genesis of the angel conversations
- 3. Climbing Jacob's ladder: angelology as natural philosophy
- Part II. Revelations
- 4. 'Then commeth the ende': apocalypse, natural philosophy, and the angel conversations
- 5. 'The true cabala': reading the book of nature
- 6. Adam's alchemy: the medicine of God and the restitution of nature
- Epilogue
- Select Bibliography
- Index
