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 | | Scientist, secret agent, geographer, antiquarian, court astrologer, Dee was the quintessential Renaissance man. With the largest library in England, he typified the hermetic pattern of information addiction, and his interests ranged from Euclid to navigation to Raymon Lull to mechanical toys, particularly machines which could simulate bird calls. |
| | In De occulta philosophia, one of the most influential source texts for Renaissance magicians like Dee, Agrippa defines three different types of magic, "Naturall, Mathematicall and Theologicall." Natural magic held that s tellar forces influenced nature, and that by manipulating the natural world, one could attract these influences. |
| | Mathematical magic--"mathesis"-- grew from the Pythagorean mystical philosophy that number was God's hidden symbolic language of creation. |
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