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| Keywords: Dee engraving.jpg The most eminent of the names intimately connected with astrology in modern 1840s times at least is that of John Dee Fig 2155 a man of remarkable ability and learning who at the age of twenty made a tour on the Continent for the purpose ”unusual with persons of his age ”of holding scientific converse with the most eminent European scholars In 1543 he was made a fellow of Trinity College Cambridge just then founded by Henry VIII ; but five years later we find him entering into a kind of voluntary exile by a second Continent expedition caused by suspicions he had excited at home of his dealings in the Black Art in which term however all kinds of legitimate studies that the vulgar could not understand were included Dee for instance was an able astronomer and a skilful mechanician; and these attainments alone had he not been an astrologer also would have sufficed to have made him one in the eyes of the world of England in the sixteenth century p 218 cite book Knight Charles http //www fromoldbooks org/OldEngland/pages/2155-Dee/ Old England A Pictorial Museum 1845 1845 PD due to age John Dee PD-Art | ||||
