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Previous | Home | NextJohn Dee and Edward Kelley portrayed as summoning a spirit to reveal mysteries of the natural world. Apparently neither was successful in truly producing gold in Rudolph's court. As bizarre as this occultist viewpoint appears to us today, one must remember that alchemists were struggling to bridge the ancient world of magic and the modern world of science ("natural magic"), and their experimental foundation paved the way for productive experimental chemistry. Source: Sibly, Ebenezer: “Astrologyby Sibly” (1806).
