John Dee and Edward Kelly depicted in a magic circle, “invoking the spirit of a deceased person.” A version of the illustration was included in Kurt Seligmann’s ‘The Mirror of Magic ...

John Dee, born on this day 490 years ago, was Queen Elizabeth I’s scientific advisor–but he was also a magician. He carried on a lengthy conversation with spirits.

The late Victorian-era painting of John Dee, known as "the Queen's conjuror" during the reign of Elizabeth I, depicts the philosopher, magician and general know-it-all performing some kind of ...

Her successor, James I, had little or no time for magic or superstition and Dee declined in influence from that point onwards. He spent the final years of his life in poverty, dying in either 1608 ...

"John Dee Performing an Experiment before Elizabeth I" Henry Gillard Glindoni (1852-1913), Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons A Victorian-era oil painting by artist Henry Gillard Glindoni ...

Scholar, Courtier, Magician: The lost library of John Dee is showing at the Royal College of Physicians, London, until 29 July “THE book of nature is written in the language of mathematics ...

John Dee and the Empire of Angels: Enochian Magick and the Occult Roots of the Modern World Jason Louv. Inner Traditions, $40 (560p) ISBN 978-1-62055-589-7 ...

The Queen's Conjurer: The Science and Magic of Dr. John Dee, Adviser to Queen Elizabeth I Benjamin Woolley. Henry Holt & Company, $25 (355pp) ISBN 978-0-8050-6509-1 ...