Ep.31 - Katie Birkwood - John Dee: Magic, Medicine And The Tudor World
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English - June 10, 2020 20:04 - 51 minutes - 51.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsScience Health & Fitness Medicine medical history medicine rcpe royal college physicians edinburgh lectures Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Ep.30 - Emma Spary - Knowing and Selling Exotic Drugs in Paris c.1700
John Dee (1527–1609) was one of the most intriguing figures in Tudor Britain. The model of a Renaissance man, he harboured interests in astrology, alchemy, history, religion, medicine, magic and much more besides. In this talk, Katie Birkwood explores Dee’s life story, thoughts and personality, which survive in the personally annotated collection of his books, now residing at the library of the Royal College of Physicians, London. Find out how the modern division between ‘science’ and ‘magic’ has to be set to one side when considering Dee and 16th century knowledge.
Speaker: Katie Birkwood (Rare Books and Special Collections Librarian, Royal College of Physicians, London)