Fold-up geometrical illustrations in the first English edition of Euclid’s ‘Elements of Geometry,’ published London, 1570. John Dee wrote a mathematical preface to the book. (© Royal College of ...

FAIRBANKS — Adolph Hitler is better known than Dr. Dee, Queen Elizabeth I’s one-man think tank, but both were involved in the sordid history of library destruction. That’s why our word for the week is ...

Royal College of Physicians, London: 18 January – 29 July. Before Galileo, it is difficult to tell the history of science as such. No one exemplifies that better than John Dee (1527–1609). The Tudor ...