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E. Schultheisz and L. Tardy: The Contacts of the two Dees and Sir Philipp Sidney with the Hungarian Physicians

E. S çĥų ĥeis z—L. Tardy

: The Contacts of the two Dees.

.. 99 Dee's work is interesting also from the point of view of medical history. The careful study of the work has led us to the conclusion that it points beyond the treatment of cryptography, cabbalism and symbolics, and it contains the basic tenets of his work as an alchemis. The detailed treatment of elementary qualities, the Calidus and the Humidus leads already over to the theory of fluid-circulation. There is no doubt that in the cosmic symbolism of his work, Dee appears as a classic neo-Platonist, who in this respect reminds us of Giovanni Pico Delia Mirandola.

8 It would be wrong to judge John Dee exclusively on Title Page of John Dee's main work 8 Schultheis^, E.: Giovanni Pico della Mirandolas Bedeutung für die Medizin. L'opera e il pensiero di Giovanni Pico della Mirandola nella storia dell'umanesimo. Vol. II. Firenze, 1965. pp. 405-412.