A Reputation History of John Dee, 1527-1609: The Life of an Elizabethan Intellectual

This work traces the course of the enigmatic life and career of John Dee, Elizabethan polymath and scholar of diverse and sundry pursuits, and provides us with a useful historiographical summation. It shows us a marginal figure whose works had little lasting value, with his science being part of a "failed" scientific revolution in astrology and alchemy. This work also maps the trajectory of Dee's posthumous reputation to the present day showing how he has been understood, and misunderstood, for the past four hundred years.