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... they were affiliated from all ranks and classes , from men of learning and from
men of ignorance . I In the fourteenth century Ceccus Asculanus , philosopher ,
astrologer , mathematician , physician to Pope John XXII . , was committed to the
...
... they were affiliated from all ranks and classes , from men of learning and from
men of ignorance . I In the fourteenth century Ceccus Asculanus , philosopher ,
astrologer , mathematician , physician to Pope John XXII . , was committed to the
...
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The lives of its three best - known practitioners , William Lilly , Simon Forman ,
and John Dee , extend over the greater part of two centuries , and include the
reigns of Elizabeth , James I . , Charles I . , the periods of the Commonwealth and
...
The lives of its three best - known practitioners , William Lilly , Simon Forman ,
and John Dee , extend over the greater part of two centuries , and include the
reigns of Elizabeth , James I . , Charles I . , the periods of the Commonwealth and
...
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There is John a Windor , the speculator , a scrivener by trade , so much given to
ill - living that at times the Dæmons • ( the tres angelos of his invocation ) would
not appear ; he ' would then suffumigate ; sometimes to vex the spirits he would ...
There is John a Windor , the speculator , a scrivener by trade , so much given to
ill - living that at times the Dæmons • ( the tres angelos of his invocation ) would
not appear ; he ' would then suffumigate ; sometimes to vex the spirits he would ...
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Or Critical Journal. the times of the Stewarts , it remains for Dr . John Dee , the
greatest mathematician of Elizabeth ' s reign , to place us face to face with the
very heart of occult science , not with Forman ' s waxen effigies or Lilly ' s
almanacs of ...
Or Critical Journal. the times of the Stewarts , it remains for Dr . John Dee , the
greatest mathematician of Elizabeth ' s reign , to place us face to face with the
very heart of occult science , not with Forman ' s waxen effigies or Lilly ' s
almanacs of ...
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... General and Bacon a member of parliament . ' Lecky , ' History of Rationalism . '
to John Dee ' s ear no single sound of 1900 . 35 A Side Scene of Thoughts.
... General and Bacon a member of parliament . ' Lecky , ' History of Rationalism . '
to John Dee ' s ear no single sound of 1900 . 35 A Side Scene of Thoughts.
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