Barone, Robert
Robert W. Barone is Associate Professor of History at the University of Montevallo in Montevallo, Alabama. He completed his Ph.D. at The Ohio State University.
2009 0-7734-4667-2Argues that the Elizabethan polymath John Dee was not the influential intellectual he purported himself to be. Dee’s scientific works were anachronistic and in no way heralded the new age of experimental science. This book traces the course of Dee’s life showing how he was a marginal figure and his works had little lasting value. It also provides a useful historiographical summation of Dee’s life and career.
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