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Monas Hieroglyphica
How this book fits
- Traditions
- Renaissance magic and Christian Cabala Alchemy
- Role in the tradition
- Primary source Written from inside the tradition: scripture, revelation, a grimoire, a manifesto or a practical treatise.
- Public attention
- Major Wikipedia has an article about it in 12 languages.
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From Wikipedia
Monas Hieroglyphica is a book by John Dee, the Elizabethan magus and court astrologer of Elizabeth I of England, published in Antwerp in 1564. It is an exposition of the meaning of an esoteric symbol that he invented.
From the Wikipedia article Monas Hieroglyphica, revision 1369705736, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata Q908061: “literary work”.
In this study
In the chronology, in John Dee's account.
His famous enigmatic synthesis of planetary, elemental, alchemical and mathematical symbols into a single glyph.