• DOI:10.1179/000269805X77772
Corpus ID: 170221216

The Early Alchemical Reception of John Dee's Monas Hieroglyphica

@article{Forshaw2005TheEA,
  title={The Early Alchemical Reception of John Dee's Monas Hieroglyphica},
  author={P. Forshaw},
  journal={Ambix},
  year={2005},
  volume={52},
  pages={247 - 269}
}

P. Forshaw

Published 2005

Philosophy

Ambix

Abstract Brian Vickers once described John Dee's Monas Hieroglyphica as "possibly the most obscure work ever written by an Englishman," asking whether there were even ten references to it in the seventeenth century. This article considers Dee's reputation as an alchemist, in particular the reception of his Monas Hieroglyphica, in Latin, French, and German texts published in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and examines two themes: first, discussion of the Monas Hieroglyphica in the… CONTINUE READING

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