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John Dee (13 July 1527 – 1608 or 1609) was an English mathematician, astronomer, teacher, astrologer, occultist, and alchemist. [4] He was the court astronomer for, and advisor to, Elizabeth I, and spent much of his time on alchemy, divination, and Hermetic philosophy. As an antiquarian, he had one of the largest libraries in England at the time.
Sigillum Dei. The Sigillum Dei (seal of God, "Seal of Truth" or signum dei vivi, symbol of the Living God, called by John Dee the Sigillum Dei Aemeth) is a magical diagram, composed of two circles, a pentagram, two heptagons, and one heptagram, and is labeled with the names of God and its angels. It is an angelic magic seal with the magical ...
Monas Hieroglyphica (or The Hieroglyphic Monad) is a book by John Dee, the Elizabethan magus and court astrologer of Elizabeth I of England, published in Antwerp in 1564. It is an exposition of the meaning of an esoteric symbol that he invented. Dee's Monas Hieroglyphica presents a complex emblem constructed from various astrological symbols ...
Doctor Destiny ( John Dee) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. [1] Jeremy Davies played the character in his live-action debut on the Arrowverse crossover "Elseworlds". David Thewlis plays a version of the character in the television series The Sandman.
The Angel of the West Window. The Angel of the West Window is a weird fiction novel written in 1927 by Gustav Meyrink (original German title: Der Engel vom westlichen Fenster) steeped in alchemical, hermetic, occult and mystical imagery and ideas interweaving the life of Elizabethan Magus Dr John Dee with that of a fictional modern descendant ...
Date apprehended. July 30, 1969. Imprisoned at. G. Robert Cotton Correctional Facility. The Michigan Murders were a series of highly publicized killings of young women committed between 1967 and 1969 in the Ann Arbor / Ypsilanti area of Southeastern Michigan by an individual known as the Ypsilanti Ripper, the Michigan Murderer, and the Co-Ed ...
Blanche Parry is Elizabeth I of England's lady-in-waiting and also John Dee's cousin; Sir William Cecil has already served Lady Jane Grey and Mary I of England; Edmund Bonner is an English bishop who warns that French Catholics take the current English Queen for a witch. Peter Carew is an adventurer who leads John Dee to Glastonbury
Dee was the eldest son of John Dee by his third wife, Jane, daughter of Bartholomew Fromond of East Cheam, Surrey. He was born at Mortlake on 13 July 1579. As a child he accompanied his father on travels through Germany, Poland and Bohemia. After his return to England he was placed at Westminster School, on 3 May 1592, under the tuition of ...