"This thesis re-assesses what we know of John Dee within a context of what I have termed ‘polytemporality’. This approach questions Dee’s relationship to periodising
conventions and to the historiographical recuperation of identity following perceived temporal ruptures (such as the Reformation). It challenges the standard
notion of Dee as the archetypal ‘Renaissance conjurer’ by bringing to the forefront Dee’s own assessment of the ‘past, present and hereafter’ of his reputation. It
argues that Dee’s multiple identities are instead reflective of a polytemporal reflexivity that is heightened by a conflict between his intellectual hubris and
personal insecurity. Dee emerges as a figure poised uncomfortably in and outside of his society’s conceptions of temporality, influenced by the past and self-consciously
aware of the future."



Rachel Reid: Past, Present, and Hereafter to be Written: The Polytemporal Identities of John Dee


https://pureadmin.qub.ac.uk/ws/portalfil..._Final.pdf

MICHAEL WILDING TELLS THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF THE COUNCILLOR, THE CHARLATAN, AND THE CROWNED HEADS OF EUROPE

https://brazen-head.org/2020/10/18/john-...ss-darkly/



See also Wilding's brief biography of Edward Kelly:

https://www.academia.edu/41049495/Biogra..._alchemist

An amazing site by Jordan Cole.

Browse Dee's life by date, topic, person, place or source.

https://www.drjohndee.net/

"This essay discusses a significant component of alchemical discourse in the early modern period, the relations between alchemy and myth."

https://furnaceandfugue.org/essays/forshaw/

Glenn Magee.

"Hegel’s library included Hermetic writings by Agrippa, Boehme, Bruno, and Paracelsus. He read widely on Mesmerism, psychic phenomenal dowsing, precognition, and sorcery. He publicly associated himself with known occultists, like Franz von Baader. He structured his philosophy in a manner identical to the Hermetic use of ‘Correspondences!’ He relied on histories of thought that discussed Hermes Trismegistus, Pico della Mirandola, Robert Fludd, and Knorr von Rosenroth alongside Plato, Galileo, Descartes, and Newton. He stated in his lectures more than once that the term “speculative” means the same thing as “mystical.” He believed in an “Earth Spirit” and corresponded with colleagues about the nature of magic. He aligned himself, informally, with “Hermetic” societies such as the Freemasons and the Rosicrucians. Even Hegel’s doodles were Hermetic, as we shall see in chapter 3 when I discuss the mysterious “triangle diagram”."


Book chapter with useful references.


https://www.marxists.org/reference/subje.../magee.htm

"Within alchemical writing there is both a religious and scientific register in simultaneous coexistence. The linguistic symbols of alchemy are themselves to be understood as chemical matter embedded in the world by divine providence: a principle manifest in the doctrine of signatures. The natural world offers a complex but ultimately resolvable hermeneutic challenge to the natural scientist, whose job it becomes to be a reader of the book of nature wherein the Creator has inscribed a legible, if often allusive, meaning and purpose. This paper will proceed to explore how early modern alchemical-thinking impacted attitudes towards language and meaning in The Winter’s Tale."

Full text with Download button.

https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/accessus/vol6/iss2/5/

"Other medical practitioners in New England, such as Benjamin Stockbridge (1704-1788), tried their hand at making gold and silver legally by conducting alchemical experiments alongside their medical practices. In another case, Gershom Bulkeley (1635-1713) took notes about medico-alchemical experiments in his home laboratory in Connecticut. Bulkeley possessed a Harvard education and owned copies of European medical and alchemical texts to aid his pursuits, while Stockbridge had received formal medical training and also read European texts."


https://commonplace.online/article/bad-m...rint=print

The Chemistry of Alchemy: From Dragon's Blood to Donkey Dung, How Chemistry Was Forged

“What makes this book unique is the authors are chemists and provide experiments based on alchemy for readers to try. The experiments are simple to perform and can be made with commercially available products listed in the appendix.”

https://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-re...was-forged

   

"Delving into the dark recesses of his mind, which undoubtedly were already full of jumbled astrological and alchemical notions, Evans hatched up an idea that would ultimately lead to his downfall: Antimonial cups."


https://thethinkersgarden.com/john-evans...tter-lane/

"Just how Sir Thomas Browne’s discourse The Garden of Cyrus (1658) has not been recognised as exemplary of literary writings influenced by hermetic philosophy remains a mystery. The  first page of Browne's discourse alludes to no less than six major themes, symbols and preoccupations which are associated with western esoteric traditions including hermeticism."

https://aquariumofvulcan.blogspot.com/20...ncunx.html


Browne's text can be found here:

https://archive.org/details/gardenofcyrusorq04brow