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Mathematical and Angelic Astronomy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

A. G. Molland
A. G. Molland
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University of Aberdeen
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The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , November 1980 , pp. 255 - 258
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Copyright © British Society for the History of Science 1980

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1 Ephemeridum novum atque insigne opus ab anno domini 1556 usque in 1606 accuratissime supputatum: cui praeter alia omnia in caeteris editionibus addi solita, etiam haec accesserunt. I Eclipsium typi elegantissimi. II Expedita ratio constituendi coelestis thematis, cum tabulis, e quibus motus planetarum tam in nativitatibus quam revolutionibus citra laborem haberi possunt. III Brevis ratio iudicandi, cum novis quibusdam observationibus & electionum methodo tam universali quam ad cuiusque genesin accommodata. IIII Loca stellarum fixarum ab anno domini 1349 usque in 2029 diligenter annotata. V Themata quatuor anni temporum, cum brevi declaratione revolulionis mundi, aliaque plura, quae diligens lector in ipso opere facile perspiciet. Authore Cypriano Leovitio a Leonicia Bohemo Hradecensi, Illustrissimi principis Electoris Ottonis Henrici Palatini Rheni &c. Mathematico…, Augsburg, 1557. On Leowitz see Thorndike, L., A history of magic and experimental science, New York, 1928–1958, vi, 111–18Google Scholar; and Mayer, J., ‘Der Astronom Cyprianus Leovitus (1514–1574) und seine Schriften’, Bibliotheca mathematica, 1903, 4 3, 134–59.Google Scholar

2 Brevis et perspicua ratio iudicandi genituras, ex physicis causis & vera experientia extracta: & ea methodo tradita, ut quivis facile, in genere omnium thematum iuditia inde collidere possit: Cypriano Leovitio a Leonicia, excellente Mathematico Authore. Praefixa est admonitio de vero & licito astrologiae usu: per Hieronymum Wolfium, virum in omni humaniore literatura, linguarum, artiumque mathematicarum cognitione praestantem, in dialogo conscripta. Adiectus est praeterea libellus de praestantioribus quibusdam naturae virtutibus: loanne Oee Londinense Authore, London, 1558.

3 Compare sig.ee. 10.v-ff.l.r of the 1557 edition with sig. R.2.r-v of the 1558 edition.

4 Calder, I. R. F., ‘John Dee studied as an English neoplatonist’, University of London PhD thesis, 1952, i, 501Google Scholar. On connexions between Dee and Leowitz see also Evans, R. J. W., Rudolf II and his World, Oxford, 1973, 221.Google Scholar

5 Yates, F., ‘Print culture: the Renaissance’, Encounter, 04 1979, 52, 59–64 (61).Google Scholar

6 The ‘Opus majus’ of Roger Bacon, ed. by Bridges, J. H., Oxford, 1897–1901, i, p. xxxivGoogle Scholar. Cf. Calder, , op.cit. (4) i 729Google Scholar; ii, 428, n. 171.

7 Clulee, N. H., ‘Astrology, magic, and optics: facets of John Dee's early natural philosophy’, Renaissance quarterly, 1977, 30, 632–80 (642)CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed, dates Dee's interest in Roger Bacon to 1556. Clulee's valuable article is much concerned with the Propaedeumata, but presumably appeared too late to be included in Heilbron's and Shumaker's bibliography.

8 Cf. Josten, C. H., ‘A translation of John Dee's “Monas hieroglyphica” (Antwerp, 1564), with an introduction and annotations’, Ambix, 1964, 12, 84–221 (122–4)CrossRefGoogle Scholar, and Autobiographical tracts of Dr. John Dee, Warden of the College of Manchester, in Chetham Miscellanies, I: ‘Remains historical and literary connected with the Palatine counties of Lancaster and Chester’, [Manchester], 1851, 24, 26, 75.Google Scholar

9 Cf. Molland, A. G., ‘Roger Bacon: magic and the multiplication of species’, Paideia, forthcoming.Google Scholar

10 Thorndike, , op.cit. (1), vi, 115.Google Scholar

11 The Elements of geometrie of the most auncient philosopher Euclide of Megara, London, 1570, sig. b.iii. v-iv.r.Google Scholar

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13 Summa theologiae III, q.36, a. 11Google Scholar, Opera omnia, Rome, 1882– xi, 372Google Scholar. Cf. pseudo-Augustine, De mirabilibus sacrae scnpturae III. 4, Patrologiae cursus completus … Series Latina, ed. by Migne, J.-P., Paris, 1844–1893, xxxv, 2194–5.Google Scholar

14 A true and faithful relation of what passed for many years between Dr. John Dee and some spirits, ed. by Casaubon, Merit, London, 1659, p. 239. Cf. p. 15 of Heilbron's introduction.Google Scholar