The Diaries of John Dee Edward Fenton, editor Hardbound, 369 pages, 1st edition, 1998 Day Books $37.95 Alchemist, astrologer, mystic and mathematician, John Dee was one of the most brilliant and controversial figures of the Elizabethan age. Here, for the first time, his private journals and spirit diaries are brought together in an accurate and readable version. They reveal the soaring ambition of one who aspired to walk with God, and the extraordinary consequences of his quest for the key to all knowledge.

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