JOHN DEE AND ALCHEMY – 28 MAY 2005
The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry is holding a meeting
examining the significance and reception of John Dee’s work on Saturday 28
May 2005 at the English Department, Birkbeck College, 30 Russell Square,
London beginning at 10.45am.
Programme
10.45 Coffee and Introduction, Stephen Clucas, Birkbeck College,
University of London
11.00 Nicholas H. Clulee: Frostburg State University
"The Alchemical Significance of John Dee’s Monas Hieroglyphica."
12.00 Hilde Norrgren: Independent Scholar
"John Dee and Johannes Panetheus’s Voarchadumia."
13.00 Lunch Interval (lunch is not provided)
14.15 Peter J. Forshaw: Birkbeck College, University of London
"The alchemical reception of John Dee in the seventeenth century."
15.15 Penny Bayer: Independent Scholar
"Lady Margaret Clifford’s alchemical receipt book and the John Dee
circle."
16.15 Drinks and discussion
The meeting will close at 17.00.
The meeting is open to all at a fee of £10.00 (including tea and coffee).
For a registration form please see www.ambix.org or contact Dr Anna
Simmons on [log in to unmask] or at the Department of History of
Science, Technology and Medicine, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton
Keynes, MK7 6AA
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