John Dee
Talk by . I.R. F. Calder
The Great Conjuror of England was the phrase applied to John Dee by many of his contemporaries, and this picture of him has persisted ever once. The speaker, however, argues that far from being a conventional practitioner of * magic,' Dee. was an important link between medieval thinkers such as Roger Bacon and the • modern ' scientific movement inaugurated in the seventeenth century.
Mr. Calder is a Research Fellow at
Reading University and was formerly on the staff of the Warburg Institute. He has for some years been studying Dee's life and his contribution to science.