Article ID: CBB001251149

Elias Ashmole's Collections and Views about John Dee (2012)

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Feola, Vittoria (Author)


Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Volume: 43, no. 3
Issue: 3
Pages: 530-538


Publication Date: 2012
Edition Details: Part of a Special Issue on John Dee and the Sciences
Language: English

In this paper I discuss Elias Ashmole's collections and views about John Dee. I consider Dee as an object of collection against the broader background of Ashmole's collecting practices. I also look at the uses to which Ashmole put some of his collections relating to Dee, as well as those which he envisaged for posterity. I argue that Ashmole's interest in Dee stemmed from his ideas about the uses of antiquity in the reconstruction and transmission of knowledge. They partly reflected Ashmole's interpretation of Francis Bacon's Advancement of learning as well as the influence of William Backhouse and William Oughtred's ideas about publishing natural philosophy in English.

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Authors & Contributors
Clucas, Stephen
Picardi, Mariassunta
Giusy Cardellicchio
Rampling, Jennifer M.
Pumfrey, Stephen
Parry, Glyn
Concepts
Natural philosophy
Occult sciences
Mathematics
Alchemy
Magic
Natural magic
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
Renaissance
Enlightenment
Medieval
Places
England
Great Britain
Italy
Germany
Holy Roman Empire
Institutions
British Museum. Natural History
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
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