Occult philosophy and politics: Why John Dee wrote his Compendious rehearsal in November 1592

The Elizabethan mathematics of everything: John Dee's ‘Mathematicall praeface’ to Euclid'sElements

“…achievements (see Clulee 1988;Parry 2012). However, accumulating vast and wideranging knowledge was no easier in the sixteenth century than it is today (indeed, considerably less so), and to acquire it Dee clearly started work early.…”