Elizabeth I's controversial astrologer, John Dee, takes center stage in this serviceable thriller set in 1560 from British author Rickman (To Dream of the Dead and nine other Merrily Watkins mysteries ...

Galileo, Kepler and Newton are generally credited with having accomplished the profound intellectual revolution that created modern science. Though they have done their work so well that it is perhaps ...

THE sale by Messrs. Sotheby of an interesting relic of the mathematician and astrologer Dr. John Dee, who was patronized by Queen Elizabeth, was recorded in The Times of May 5. The relic is a gold ...

Obsidian mirror which once belonged to Dr John Dee ( 1527 1608 ), Thought to be part of the treasure brought back from Mexico by Cortes. A scryer, gazing into the mirror would see clouds of smoke ...

X-ray of Henry Gillard Glindoni's painting 'John Dee Performing an Experiment before Elizabeth I'. Oil on canvas, late 19th century. The x-ray reveals John Dee standing in a circle of human skulls.