Volume 19, Number 11 & 12 · January 25, 1973
A Great Magus
By Frances A. Yates
John Dee: The World of an Elizabethan Magus
by Peter J. French
Routledge & Kegan Paul, 244 pp., $12.50
"John Dee e il suo sapere"
by Furio Jesi
Comunita, no. 166, 272-303 pp.
The Occult Sciences in the Renaissance: A Study in Intellectual Patterns
by Wayne Shumaker
University of California, 304 pp., $15.00
In 1570, one of the most important books of the Elizabethan period was published in London. This was Henry Billingsley's English translation of Euclid, with a preface described on the title page as
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