Deborah E Harkness
Biographic Data
| ID | 5826328 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deborah E Harkness |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deborah E |
| FAMILY NAME | Harkness |
| SIGNATURE | HARKNESS D E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
John Dee's Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature
A View from the Streets: Women and Medical Work in Elizabethan London
In Elizabethan London, women occupied a significant position in the city's medical marketplace, both as consumers of medical services and as practitioners. Though male medical authors of the period objected to the presence and practices of these women, a very different view of their medical work emerges if we shift our historical vantage point to the streets, houses, churches, and hospitals of the city. Using relatively underutilized sources such…
The Boyle Papers: Understanding the Manuscripts of Robert Boyle
Michael Hunter ,ed The Boyle Papers: Understanding the Manuscripts of Robert Boyle. Aldershot : Ashgate Publishing Company , 2007 ISBN: 978-0-7546-5568-8 - Volume 61 Issue 1
Promethean Ambitions: Alchemy and the Quest to Perfect Nature (review)
Reviewed by: Promethean Ambitions: Alchemy and the Quest to Perfect Nature Deborah E. Harkness (bio) Promethean Ambitions: Alchemy and the Quest to Perfect Nature. By William R. Newman . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. xiv+333. $30. In this important new book, William Newman uncovers the surprisingly long history of modern debates concerned with delineating the natural and the artificial by exploring the philosophical underpinning…
Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early Modern Science (review)
Reviewed by: Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early Modern Science Deborah E. Harkness Claire Preston . Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early Modern Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiv + 250 pp. Ill. $75.00 (0-521-83794-4). Thomas Browne (1605–82), physician and author, was a man with intellectual interests that were so wide-ranging it is almost impossible to describe them, let alone draw them into a coherent portrait. A tr…
Power, Knowledge, and Expertise in Elizabethan England
Eric H. Ash. Power, Knowledge, and Expertise in Elizabethan England. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xii + 265 pp. index.bibl. $45. ISBN: 0-8018-7992-2. - Volume 58 Issue 4
The Instauratio magna Part II: Novum organum and Associated Texts
Francis Bacon. The Instauratio magna Part II: Novum organum and Associated Texts. Eds. and trans. Graham Rees and Maria Wakely. The Oxford Francis Bacon 11. Oxford and New York : The Clarendon Press/Oxford University Press, 2004. cxxviii + 625 pp. + 2 b/w pls. index. append. illus. tbls. bibl. $225. ISBN: 0-19-924792-7. - Volume 58 Issue 2
The Great Household in Late Medieval England
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John Dee’s Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature
Beyond Midwives: Teaching Gender, Science, and Medicine from Antiquity to the Present
Research Article| May 01 1999 Beyond Midwives: Teaching Gender, Science, and Medicine from Antiquity to the Present Deborah E. Harkness Deborah E. Harkness Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1999) 1999 (74): 162–172. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1999-74-162 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Deborah E. Harkness; Beyond Midwives: Teaching Gender, Science, and…
Nicolas Flamel, His Exposition of the Hieroglyphicall Figures (1624) . Nicolas Flamel , Laurinda Dixon
John Dee: Le Mage de la Ruelle d'Or
Managing an Experimental Household: The Dees of Mortlake and the Practice of Natural Philosophy
Jane Dee was married to Elizabethan England's most eminent natural philosopher, John Dee. As John Dee's wife Jane was expected to perform a variety of traditional housewifely duties--managing servants, supervising domestic arrangements, and serving as a model of virtue for her family and the community. As the wife of a natural philosopher, however, Jane Dee was expected also to be her husband's helpmeet and partner--helping to make sure that the …
Shows in the Showstone: A Theater of Alchemy and Apocalypse in the Angel Conversations of John Dee (1527-1608/9)
On 16 November 1582 John Dee and his assistant, Edward Kelly, gathered in the study of Dee's home in Mortlake, a small town located southwest of London on the river Thames. It was five o'clock on a Friday afternoon, and the latest in a series of dramatic events was unfolding. This event, like the events that preceded it and those that followed, involved an extraordinary cast of characters and contained a significant philosophical message. In Mort…
Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair
Part 1 A dog in the night time: Salisbury court on the river confessions dialogues, and a small riot last days in Arcadia under the volcanoe notes. Part 2 Veritas filia temporis: a coincidence of opposites - a priest in the house, communications with the enemy notes Bruno at large - London, the malcontent, Paris notes Bruno recaptured - man, dog politick, priest notes. Epilogue - Fagot at the stake notes, text two notes - a note on Castelnau's ho…
Idea, mente, specie: Platonismo e scienza in Johannes Marcus Marci (1595-1667). Giuliana Mocchi
Managing an Experimental Household: The Dees of Mortlake and the Practice of Natural Philosophy
Jane Dee was married to Elizabethan England's most eminent natural philosopher, John Dee. As John Dee's wife Jane was expected to perform a variety of traditional housewifely duties--managing servants, supervising domestic arrangements, and serving as a model of virtue for her family and the community. As the wife of a natural philosopher, however, Jane Dee was expected also to be her husband's helpmeet and partner--helping to make sure that the …
Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair
Part 1 A dog in the night time: Salisbury court on the river confessions dialogues, and a small riot last days in Arcadia under the volcanoe notes. Part 2 Veritas filia temporis: a coincidence of opposites - a priest in the house, communications with the enemy notes Bruno at large - London, the malcontent, Paris notes Bruno recaptured - man, dog politick, priest notes. Epilogue - Fagot at the stake notes, text two notes - a note on Castelnau's ho…
Idea, mente, specie: Platonismo e scienza in Johannes Marcus Marci (1595-1667). Giuliana Mocchi
Shows in the Showstone: A Theater of Alchemy and Apocalypse in the Angel Conversations of John Dee (1527-1608/9)
On 16 November 1582 John Dee and his assistant, Edward Kelly, gathered in the study of Dee's home in Mortlake, a small town located southwest of London on the river Thames. It was five o'clock on a Friday afternoon, and the latest in a series of dramatic events was unfolding. This event, like the events that preceded it and those that followed, involved an extraordinary cast of characters and contained a significant philosophical message. In Mort…
Managing an Experimental Household: The Dees of Mortlake and the Practice of Natural Philosophy
Jane Dee was married to Elizabethan England's most eminent natural philosopher, John Dee. As John Dee's wife Jane was expected to perform a variety of traditional housewifely duties--managing servants, supervising domestic arrangements, and serving as a model of virtue for her family and the community. As the wife of a natural philosopher, however, Jane Dee was expected also to be her husband's helpmeet and partner--helping to make sure that the …
Nicolas Flamel, His Exposition of the Hieroglyphicall Figures (1624) . Nicolas Flamel , Laurinda Dixon
John Dee: Le Mage de la Ruelle d'Or
Beyond Midwives: Teaching Gender, Science, and Medicine from Antiquity to the Present
Research Article| May 01 1999 Beyond Midwives: Teaching Gender, Science, and Medicine from Antiquity to the Present Deborah E. Harkness Deborah E. Harkness Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1999) 1999 (74): 162–172. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1999-74-162 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Deborah E. Harkness; Beyond Midwives: Teaching Gender, Science, and…
John Dee’s Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature
The Great Household in Late Medieval England
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Power, Knowledge, and Expertise in Elizabethan England
Eric H. Ash. Power, Knowledge, and Expertise in Elizabethan England. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xii + 265 pp. index.bibl. $45. ISBN: 0-8018-7992-2. - Volume 58 Issue 4
The Instauratio magna Part II: Novum organum and Associated Texts
Francis Bacon. The Instauratio magna Part II: Novum organum and Associated Texts. Eds. and trans. Graham Rees and Maria Wakely. The Oxford Francis Bacon 11. Oxford and New York : The Clarendon Press/Oxford University Press, 2004. cxxviii + 625 pp. + 2 b/w pls. index. append. illus. tbls. bibl. $225. ISBN: 0-19-924792-7. - Volume 58 Issue 2
Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early Modern Science (review)
Reviewed by: Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early Modern Science Deborah E. Harkness Claire Preston . Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early Modern Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiv + 250 pp. Ill. $75.00 (0-521-83794-4). Thomas Browne (1605–82), physician and author, was a man with intellectual interests that were so wide-ranging it is almost impossible to describe them, let alone draw them into a coherent portrait. A tr…
Promethean Ambitions: Alchemy and the Quest to Perfect Nature (review)
Reviewed by: Promethean Ambitions: Alchemy and the Quest to Perfect Nature Deborah E. Harkness (bio) Promethean Ambitions: Alchemy and the Quest to Perfect Nature. By William R. Newman . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. xiv+333. $30. In this important new book, William Newman uncovers the surprisingly long history of modern debates concerned with delineating the natural and the artificial by exploring the philosophical underpinning…
A View from the Streets: Women and Medical Work in Elizabethan London
In Elizabethan London, women occupied a significant position in the city's medical marketplace, both as consumers of medical services and as practitioners. Though male medical authors of the period objected to the presence and practices of these women, a very different view of their medical work emerges if we shift our historical vantage point to the streets, houses, churches, and hospitals of the city. Using relatively underutilized sources such…
The Boyle Papers: Understanding the Manuscripts of Robert Boyle
Michael Hunter ,ed The Boyle Papers: Understanding the Manuscripts of Robert Boyle. Aldershot : Ashgate Publishing Company , 2007 ISBN: 978-0-7546-5568-8 - Volume 61 Issue 1
John Dee's Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature
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