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Shades of John Dee "1555 28 May - John Dee imprisoned for heresy and for being a magician accused of 'calculating' as a form of magic" http://www.elizabethan-
by keithpeter 10y ago
Shades of John Dee
"1555 28 May - John Dee imprisoned for heresy and for being a magician accused of 'calculating' as a form of magic"
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/john-dee.htm http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/john-dee.htm
To be fair, the 'calculating' in question was casting horoscopes of the Monarch - which was regarded as a political thing to be doing in those days.
- mpnordland 10y agoStill not a good reason to imprison him.
- keithpeter 10y agoNot by today's standards no, but this was the 1500s. They saw casting the horoscope of the royals in the same way that we would view someone now who had inside knowledge of (say) a major development project in some part of a city and who used that inside knowledge to buy land cheap in order to speculate.