4 ms·
Did it really belong to John Dee? Wikipedia casts doubt: Dee's Speculum or Mirror (an obsidian Aztec cult object in the shape of a hand-mirror, brought to Euro
by canjobear 5y ago
Did it really belong to John Dee? Wikipedia casts doubt:
Dee's Speculum or Mirror (an obsidian Aztec cult object in the shape of a hand-mirror, brought to Europe in the late 1520s), which was subsequently owned by Horace Walpole.[68] This was first attributed to Dee by Walpole. Lord Frederick Campbell had brought "a round piece of shining black marble in a leathern case" to Walpole in an attempt to ascertain its provenance. Walpole said he responded saying, "Oh, Lord, I am the only man in England that can tell you! It is Dr. Dee's black stone". However, there is no explicit reference to the mirror in any of Dee's surviving writings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dee#Artefacts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dee#Artefacts