Arthur Dee (July 13, 1579 – September 1651) was the eldest son of Dr John Dee, and educated at Westminster School. Arthur accompanied his father in his peregrinations across Bohemia. He became a physician to Michael I of Russia, the founder of the Romanov Dynasty and resided in Moscow for fourteen years where he wrote his Fasciculus Chemicus, a collection of writings upon alchemy. Returning to England upon the death of his wife in 1637, Dee became physician to King Charles I. Upon his retirement Arthur Dee resided in N ...

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The origins of the association of Vulcan to alchemy is from Egyptian and Greek mythology. In modern times the Renaissance physician/alchemist Paracelsus re-introduced the mythological figure of Vulcan as the patron deity of alchemy and as symbolic of the hermetic art. To Paracelsus Vulcan was synonymous with both the alchemist/physician’s manipulation of fire, heating and distilling of nature’s properties for medicine, and the transforming power and creative potential locked within Man, the greater invisible Man or a ...

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John Dee (July 13, 1527 – 1608 or 1609) was a noted British mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, occultist, and consultant to Queen Elizabeth I. He also devoted much of his life to alchemy, divination, and Hermetic philosophy. Dr. Dee straddled the worlds of science and magic just as they were becoming distinguishable. One of the most learned men of his time, he had lectured to crowded halls at the University of Paris when still in his early twenties. He was an ardent promoter of mathematics, a respected astrono ...

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1579 - Events. January 6 - The Union of Atrecht united the southern Netherlands under the Duke of Parma, governor in the name of king Philip II of Spain. January 23 - The Union of Utrecht united the northern Netherlands in a confederation called the United Provinces. William I of Orange becomes Stadtholder, and the Duc d'Anjou, younger brother of Henry III of France is invited to become hereditary sovereign. March - Capture of Maastricht by the Spanish under Parma. June 17 - Sir F ...

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Some historical or legendary magicians, wizards, witches, or people who have been claimed to be so, are: List of occultists - Classical mythology:. Cassandra, oracle Circe, legendary sorceress Hecate, goddess of witchcraft Medea, legendary sorceress Semiramis, semi-legendary queen and sorceress List of occultists - Ancient world:. Apollonius of Tyana, wizard Apuleius ...

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Ashmole was born in Lichfield, Staffordshire. His family had been prominent, but its fortunes had declined somewhat by the time of Ashmole's birth. His father, Simon Ashmole, was a soldier and a saddler; his mother Anne was a relative of James Pagit, a Baron of the Exchequer. Ashmole attended Lichfield Grammar School and became a chorister at Lichfield Cathedral. In 1638, with the help of Pagit, he became a solicitor. He enjoyed a successful practice in London, and married Eleanor Mainwaring, a member of a poor but aristocratic family, who died only three years later. Still in his early twenties, Ashm ...

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John Dee - Early life. Dee was born in Tower Ward, London to a Welsh family, whose surname derived from the Welsh du ("black"). His father was a merchant and minor courtier. Dee attended the Chelmsford Chantry School (now King Edward VI Grammar School (Chelmsford), then – from 1543 to 1546 – St. John's College, Cambridge. His great abilities were recognized, and he was made a founding fellow of Trinity College. In the late 1540s and early 1550s, he travelled in Europe, studying at Leuven and Brussels a ...

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see also A Roster of Physician Writers The most famous writers: Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) - Russian playwright Erasmus Darwin - English poet Alfred de Musset (1810-1857) - known as a writer, but also discovered de Musset's sign, an indicator of syphilitic aortitis John Keats (1795-1821) - British poet. François Rabelais (1483-1553) - French author of Gargantua and Pantagruel. Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805), German writer, poet, essayist and dramatist. See also:

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At the Restoration of Charles II in 1660, Ashmole's loyalty was richly rewarded. He was given the office of Comptroller for the Excise in London, and later was made a Commissioner of Surinam and the Accountant General of the Excise, a position that made him responsible for a large portion of the king's revenue. These posts yielded him considerable income as well as considerable patronage power. Ashmole became one of the founding members of the Royal Society in 1661, but he was never an active member. His most significant appointment, ...

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John Dee - Thought. Dee was an intensely pious Christian, but his Christianity was deeply influenced by the Hermetic and Platonic-Pythagorean doctrines that were pervasive in the Renaissance. He believed that number was the basis of all things and the key to knowledge, that God's creation was an act of "numbering". From Hermeticism, he drew the belief that man had the potential for divine power, and he believed this divine power could be exercised through mathematics. His cabalistic angel magic (which was heavily ...

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During the 1650s, Ashmole devoted a great deal of energy to the study of alchemy. In 1650 he published Fasciculus Chemicus under the anagrammatic pseudonym James Hasholle. This work was an English translation of two Latin alchemical works, one by Arthur Dee. In 1652, he published his most important alchemical work, Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum, an extensively annotated compilation of alchemical poems in English. The book preserved and made available many works that had previously existed only in ...

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