| Autobiographical Tracts Contributor(s): Dee, John (Author), Crossley, James (Author) |
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ISBN: 1162595213 ISBN-13: 9781162595214 Publisher: Kessinger Publishing OUR PRICE: $19.90 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections - Biography & Autobiography | Medical (incl. Patients) - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Physical Information: 0.19" H x 7.5" W x 9.25" (0.37 lbs) 90 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The five tracts found in this work are by the brilliant and learned chemist, mathematician and astronomer, Dr. John Dee. Includes: The Compendious Rehearsal of John Dee, an extremely rare document; Supplication to Queen Mary; Articles for the Recovery and Preservation of the Ancient Monuments, which serve to illustrate the Compendious Rehearsal; A Necessary Advertisement, another excessively rare document which forms the preface to Dee's General and Rare Memorials Pertaining to the Perfect Art of Navigation; and A Letter Containing a Most Brief Discourse Apologetical, a letter by Dee sent to Whitgift. Most of the text is written in the Old English style. |
