Abstract
IN the personal history of learning there is probably no more interesting or more perplexing figure than the subject of this book. The story of John Dee reads more like a romance by Sue or a feuilleton by the elder Dumas than as a sober, veracious narrative of an actual human career. The achievements of the man, his learning, the range of his knowledge, his aberrations, his vicissitudes of good and evil fortune—mainly evil—taken together, make up a tale which has hardly a parallel in biographical literature, certainly not in the biography of science.
John Dee (1527-1608).
By Charlotte Fell Smith. Pp. xvi + 342. (London: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1909.) Price 10s. 6d. net.
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THORPE, T. John Dee (1527–1608). Nature 82, 121–122 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/082121a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/082121a0