History is more than obscure, it is twisted and forgotten. Some is deliberately erased, history being written by those who survive the event. Some stands free of the shadows of mens' minds. It is amazing, for me, to see your videos. You, Sir, are a cherished part of my day. I am retired and follow you daily.
John Dee is one of my favourite historical figures! His search for answers and knowledge inspires mine own, and I can only hope to house so great a number of books someday!
You have a great channel and I really enjoy the format as is. That said, I have a suggestion. You might consider longer lectures occasionally. Perhaps on pet subjects that you are very interested in. I would be happy to watch longer shows as well. I would guess there are others who would agree. Anyhow, you always do give a very professional, informative and entertaining presentation and I for one appreciate it.
Bumbling Bureaucrat i don’t think i know of a monarch that i could call their entire reign a good one. Nothing against the good ones but if its not them its someone else. Europe hell anywheres history is bloody.
For that matter despite summoning angels and, according to at least some legends summoning Satan himself, he survived the reign of King James I who is rightly famous for hating anything remotely like withcraft.
I knew a bit about Dee and some about Mercator and his projection. Did I know they had met and influenced each other ? No, that's why I watch H.G. Thank you sir.
How can anyone not like this?? Oh wait, maybe they're people that failed history in school and it brings back bad memories! Lol! Yet another great video and that tie rocks!! 👍🙂
@@Kevinrothwell1959 You are so right. Some teachers all you hear is what the teacher in Snoopy says. While here, you ignore the phone ringing or anything else that would interrupt you from listening and finishing this video. 🙂❤
Ryck Rarick ...yes and another thing,is who in the world would give this video a thumbs down? Oh, wait, I know who. The idiotic flat earthers, and those who believe in the firmament. As a Christian woman of 52 yo, I am sick and simply disgusted with those bible thumpers and bible quoters. What in the world do they think they are doing, quoting scripture as if its reciting a poem. Those who speak the loudest about a thing or a subject, are those one who is honest and true should not trust. Take what they say with a grain of salt. So much of the old writings, whether Christian, Hebrew, Muslem are and were very...fantastical. And exaggeration...though at the end, some do make valid points. But the superstitions and fanaticism and radicalism of anything is a frightening thing. Christs message is so very simple, do unto others. And if that doesnt make mounds of sense, I dont know what does. Now a Jewish or a Muslem may have other ideas and opinions, but that is a very common human feeling. It amazes to think there are folks in this world who still adhere to certain really senseless old ways that are so VERY destructive, and have been proven, with observation and science to be false. And even at times, considered evil. And for the good people who believe that Jesus was a prophet, but yet an outspoken and historically important and relevant individual, well that is okay too. I know I digressed, but, who would give this a thumbs down?!?!?! Hmmmmm.....🤗🕊🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅
Per usual, chock full of information and scholarship. After his death (and typical of those lives filled with curiosity, wonder and intelligence), Dee was praised and demonized, Alias Ashmole was sure Dee a genious, particularly in math and research while Meric Casaubon was the man who wrote the "hit piece" A TRUE AND FAITHFUL RELATION... the book you mention, that concentrates solely on Dee's dabbling with the occult. Thank you, again, for sharing your scholarship.
James Bunn just think of all the fascinating people throughout history, I bet there’d be a lot of them! And not just once or two here or there, but whole towns too. Did you hear about the town in the Middle Ages that pretended to suffer from madness just to avoid King John from building a highway through their village. It’s a pretty funny story but also kinda backfired on them too.
@@jo-vf8jx - ty much - never heard about madness in his reign except for him of course - I love how Shakespeare wrote John as a psychopath in Tudor times of course - about to google "mad village King John"
This one was a surprise. A very pleasant one. Because it hits very close to home. My mother worked for years on the Enochian language. The primary reason that understanding of the language is not more common is because it was broken as Dee left it. It only worked to a point then failed. My mother discovered the final two keys that make it work and her work is often referenced. One thing you didn't cover about the language, and that I think most miss with his talk of conversing with angels, is the concept is based on strong scientific theory. And I'm not talking about the fact that quite a few religions talk about a universal language once spoken. I'm talking about the idea that _all_ languages in the world must have a common root, just like all humans do. How we interact with the universe is based on how we can perceive and manipulate it. And that is the same no matter where you are born or when. The theory behind the Enochian language is that every base action or thought has a sound that is associated with it. And those base sounds are use in the making of the words of the different languages. Not saying that all the different words have similar sounds. Rather if you understand what the base sounds are, you can understand almost any word. This is due to us, as a species, putting together sounds that evoke the meaning the object conveys to us. Take for example the word "rock". All languages I looked at pronounced is it with an "aa" sound. Which in Enochian is "Forever; forevermore, always; eternal, eternally. " The rest of the sounds around it deal more with how the persons who codified the word saw it. For example a _really_ rough translation of "rock" would be "begin to move the eternal to make useful". Which brings us to the other point about Enochian that kept it from becoming widely accepted. Only the base sounds matter. There are no hard and fast "words" in Enochian. They change, either subtly or drastically depending on your use. For example "hammer" is a "rock" that is used with divine intent and knowledge to create. Roughly speaking. ;-)
Ok, 1st, are you familiar with Stan Tenen (sp?) and the Meru foundation? 2nd, what do you think of Laycock's Enochian dictionary and did your mother contribute?
Thanks. When I was a young, foolish smart-aleck [Hoag], I decried such things as astrology and alchemy. But as I've gotten older, more wary (and hopefully a little less foolish!), I've come to recognize a simple truth: that these things were the beginnings of astronomy and chemistry (respectively). As such, I understand that we had to start somewhere, and that it was - due to human nature (ignorance & superstition) - bound to be tied up in mythology, mysticism, & magic. Now, I'm thankful for how far we've come, but still grateful to those who dared to be the ones to start at all. By putting forth an notion [or 'theory' as they're so often misrepresented], everyone else has the chance to weigh in on it. Thus, the scientific method gets kick-started into existence. Just as we went from washing clothes by hand at the river to washing machines, science is a progression of ideas. If done correctly, it inches us ever closer to some elusive concept called "truth." tavi.
COOL, whoohooo!!! I adore John Dee, Kelly included, and I'm sitting right next to my prized black hardback Magickal Childe copy of "A True and Faithful", next to my giant floppy "Secret Teachings of All Ages", next to a bunch of Crowley, etc. I think it would be fun if you covered Jack Parsons, he's my favorite person and he's on Drunk History, best episode ever!
Whatever Dr Dee and his friends were on, I'll have some as well please ;) I continually look forward to your interesting videos which cover stories usually hard to find elsewhere!
I love "the history guy" and I learn so much from watching, all the interesting facts, etc. @7:00 though....... all I saw was Queenie, Blackadder, nanny and Melchet....... 🙈😂😂
Hi History Guy! A bit of info. for you. The Wisconsin Historical Society holds a series of competitions on local and statewide levels. High school students are to take a historical fact and develop a project. Can be a paper, a video, a play, etc. Local levels were held this past weekend and those winners will go to state level on April 13, 2019 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Maybe you might want to check it out. As always, you did a great job.
David Harris: You don't know what you're babbling about. Geometry is minor study of mathematics. Analysis (Calculus) and abstract algebra are absolutely the most important divisions of math today!
@@roberttelarket4934 Anybody can be anything behind a keyboard on the internet. But, just for the record you are the one arguing I did not attempt to correct you or accuse you of "babbling". If you do not agree with my comments feel free to post your own.
@@davidharris6581 im right with you David, I too have done plenty of my own reasearch. This man is also attempting to berate me with his hollow claims. We are not two, we are one. Dan Winter and Vincent Bridges have some lectures on Dee's discoveries that I think you should most definitely watch!!!!!!!!!
Thank you history guy. I enjoyed your rendering of John Dee, but it also made me very sad, because for all Dee's accomplishments, astrologer Joan Quigley had so much more impact on the world and will be forgotten through the importance given to those who were far less than she. But I'll bet what's known about Joan, could make for a very good short snippet of history worth remembering :) Merv Griffin was right, Joan was always right. She had even given Merv the year, month and date Merv would be getting a divorce, yet she did that just after he'd married. She was a truly remarkable astrologer that John Dee would have been very humbled by. Just a small article of the few that survive. The Reagans buried Joan's work as it overshadowed their lime light, Quigley having predicted and timed everything, just as right and correctly as Merv Griffin had proclaimed her as when he recommended her to Nancy. Joan's book, "What Does Joan Say" is well worth the read and an easy read. I think it's the best start out there into a truly interesting lady who some say, ended the cold war. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sister-nancy-reagan-astrologer-nancy-873339
I read a biography on Dee many years ago and found him fascinating. Thanks for covering him and filling in some background that the English author of the book clearly presumed everyone knew. (I'm pretty sure it was someone's Thesis.)
Thank you for your channel. I’ve been binging on it. If you haven’t done it already, I'd love to see a vid on the impromptu Christmas truce and soccer game of WW1
What wasn't mentioned here is that Kelley also had no ears, which was a common punishment for fraud in England in those days. So that if a guy shows up with a 'sure thing', if he's got no ears you know immediately what he's about. Yet still Dee, for whatever reasons, trusted the man like his life depended on it. Very odd.
@@mickey4125 it always makes me mad to hear about the fraud Kelley because John Dee seemed like a great guy and showed common sense before they got together
@@hillbillyclassof1961 I know right!? Dee is honestly a hero of mine. I consider him to be kind of like an English Da Vinci, but with demons. I mean it sounds like he was doing a fair bit of courtly spying across Europe for Elizabeth I, so maybe it was a cover story of sorts? Who knows...
@@mickey4125 if he was working for the crown why did his library get sacked? It seemed that Kelley dismantled him psychologically and he wound up a ruined man as a result
@@hillbillyclassof1961 That seems most likely. He was definitely working in Elizabeth I's court for a while, I just don't know why he wandered off with Kelley. I guess I kind of hoped there was an ulterior motive for the trip, but I think you're right, Kelley broke him somehow and they just went rambling off. Didn't his extensive library 'mysteriously' burn down or something? At his house in Mortlake?
You sir🤓..make me learn something new everyday🤔😄..there is a lot of crap on utube, but you History guy!, is certainly NOT!😉..Thanks! keep up the good work🤗
Oh, when I heard the name 'John Dudley', I knew there was trouble coming.... A fascinating portrait of a man and a time in which science as we know it now was still emerging. Nowadays it's not well-remembered how science was, for a long time, intertwined with notions of natural magic and heavenly influences we would consider pseudo-scientific today. Johannes Kepler cast horoscopes for wealthy patrons (it helped pay the rent) and you mentioned how Isaac Newton wrote about alchemy. It was mostly in the 18th century that science shed its formerly magical connections, although bad scientific ideas based on erroneous premises are a problem right down to the present day, and probably always will be. A very good video.
The engraving at 10.14 shows John Dee - to the right of picture - with Edward Kelly, calling a spirit at 12 midnight at Walton le Dale in Lancashire, their location is the crematory of St Leonards's Church, Walton-le-Dale.
Two minor details: Louvain is not in Brussels (it's a city near Brussels, at 25 km), and Bohemia is not in modern day Poland (it's in modern day Czech Republic). I love to watch your videos.
If you could do a piece on Annerin who wrote the Y Gododin, and Uther Pendragon, who was mentioned in it, and King Arthurs Sire who a lot of people think didn't even exist, it would be so wonderful to have that part of history illuminated.
Wait.. do people think scientists aren't still looking for the philosopher's stone? They're talking about uploading a human consciousness into a computer and all kinds of attempts at immortality. It's the same thing except now we're all too proud to admit that's what we're doing.
I wrote a horror novel in which John Dee is used as the founder of a secret monster hunting club/cult. He is a very useful fellow for fantasy fiction writers. :) When Dee called upon the angels for answers to the questions he could find no answers, he did what early creators of science did, they gave over to the gods when they got to the limit of their understanding. Kepler and Copernicus did the same thing. At the time, it appeared to make perfect sense, to call upon magic when you run out of answers or hit the limits of your own understanding.
In my quest for knowledge of all things, years ago I wandered into the teachings of Dee and it brought the sharpest rebuke from the Holy Spirit I ever experienced. I never went further. Don’t go too deep into these arts, the price is not worth what you get.
A great survey of one of my favourite historical figures. He is a model for Shakespeares Prospero. ..Have you ever thought of a film on Colonel Blood and the theft of the Crown Jewels?
We tend to forget that the occult was the leading edge of inquiry for most of our past; Galileo was astrologer to the Medicis. Throughout most of the Common Era our most learned men "knew" there were four elements, the celestial lights were set in concentric aetherial spheres around the earth, rats were formed in piles of rags, heavier objects fell faster than light objects, and most diseases were the product of miasmas. Our "knowledge" must always be tempered by caution: we could be wrong about literally anything.
Five elements, the fifth was akin to mystery at the core of being. It's influence on language survives, you have probably heard of it often - quintessential, quintessence. (Five in Latin - quinque, fifth is quinta.) _The aether came to be described as the pemptē ousia ("fifth element") in Greek, even though in Aristotle's writings it was usually mentioned as superior in order and significance to the other four. The phrase translated in Medieval Latin as quinta essentia and found its English spelling on a path through Middle French._ www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/quintessence-origin-meaning-history-elements
"Angels would never behave as those spirits did...." John drew a picture of the "angel" him and Kelly were conjuring....You would immediately recognize it as a "alien gray"......! (CoIncedentally......Alister Crowley drew a picture of his spirit guide....also an alien gray.....AND IT WENT BY THE SAME NAME.......)
thank you for this video, i read a bio on dr dee when i was about 11 years old and have been obsesd with him sence, tho little known and recognised by meany he was a powerful man who got a little to big for his shoulders lol
Dee was an ASTROLOGER and magician, he even selected the time for the Queen's coronation. Due to academic prejudice they always say 'astronomer'; or lie and say they only did or for the money and didn't really believe in it. They were ardent students of astrology. So was Kepler who devised a system of long range weather forecasting using astrology.
I've wanted to burn a math book or two myself. This is from an actual text: "Any base affected by a negative exponent is the same as 1, but divided by that same base with a positive exponent as the same absolute value as the negative exponent."
Louvain is a city in Belgium separate from Brussels, being about 30 km to the east. It is the site of oldest university in the world. It is also where the Stella Artois brewery is located.
The concept of zero as a digit was pretty suspicious to most peasants. How could nothing (zero) be something (a necessary digit for base 10 calculation)?
History is more than obscure, it is twisted and forgotten. Some is deliberately erased, history being written by those who survive the event. Some stands free of the shadows of mens' minds. It is amazing, for me, to see your videos. You, Sir, are a cherished part of my day. I am retired and follow you daily.
Agreed
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John Dee is one of my favourite historical figures! His search for answers and knowledge inspires mine own, and I can only hope to house so great a number of books someday!
The last time I checked, Bohemia was a major part of modern day Czechia or Czech Republic. Great video, as usual!
Imagine having to know Latin, Greek, French, German, Italian, and English just to read a part of Dee's books.
Sar Jim I bearli no enridg
That's what i call setting the bar of basic education above the Board of Education.
@@crimsonelite214 don't forget Enochian lol
People hate highly intelligent minds.
I think l'm going to have to if l want to get in the Vatican library.... 😂
You have a great channel and I really enjoy the format as is. That said, I have a suggestion. You might consider longer lectures occasionally. Perhaps on pet subjects that you are very interested in. I would be happy to watch longer shows as well. I would guess there are others who would agree. Anyhow, you always do give a very professional, informative and entertaining presentation and I for one appreciate it.
Ditto
Agreed
"And so he asked the angels." What a beautiful line!
@@rosettaeagle1718 What's your evidence for that? Everything I read and seen says otherwise.
Seeking the truth - a remarkable man nowadays !
Those angels Dee contacted were demons.
@@janusg8680 were you there to know ?
@@janusg8680pretty sure Uriel and metatron aren't demons
For him to have survived Queen Marys' reign...that is probably a story in itself
@Bumbling Bureaucrat Well.....thanks for the info and your effort
Bumbling Bureaucrat i don’t think i know of a monarch that i could call their entire reign a good one.
Nothing against the good ones but if its not them its someone else. Europe hell anywheres history is bloody.
Nathan Holt Cyrus the Great was pretty good for the most part, and even earned a place on the Bible despite being a foreigner.
For that matter despite summoning angels and, according to at least some legends summoning Satan himself, he survived the reign of King James I who is rightly famous for hating anything remotely like withcraft.
@@ParanormalEncyclopedia ..is this the same K james who approved the KJV bible? And was a flaming homosexual !..?
I knew a bit about Dee and some about Mercator and his projection. Did I know they had met and influenced each other ? No, that's why I watch H.G. Thank you sir.
How can anyone not like this?? Oh wait, maybe they're people that failed history in school and it brings back bad memories! Lol! Yet another great video and that tie rocks!! 👍🙂
If history was taught like this in school I think it would engage many more people
@@Kevinrothwell1959 You are so right. Some teachers all you hear is what the teacher in Snoopy says. While here, you ignore the phone ringing or anything else that would interrupt you from listening and finishing this video. 🙂❤
I'm a new sub, and this channel is definitly worth it.
I am an old sub, and yes it is most certainly worth it, one of my favorite channels!
Ryck Rarick ...yes and another thing,is who in the world would give this video a thumbs down? Oh, wait, I know who. The idiotic flat earthers, and those who believe in the firmament. As a Christian woman of 52 yo, I am sick and simply disgusted with those bible thumpers and bible quoters. What in the world do they think they are doing, quoting scripture as if its reciting a poem. Those who speak the loudest about a thing or a subject, are those one who is honest and true should not trust. Take what they say with a grain of salt. So much of the old writings, whether Christian, Hebrew, Muslem are and were very...fantastical. And exaggeration...though at the end, some do make valid points. But the superstitions and fanaticism and radicalism of anything is a frightening thing. Christs message is so very simple, do unto others. And if that doesnt make mounds of sense, I dont know what does. Now a Jewish or a Muslem may have other ideas and opinions, but that is a very common human feeling. It amazes to think there are folks in this world who still adhere to certain really senseless old ways that are so VERY destructive, and have been proven, with observation and science to be false. And even at times, considered evil. And for the good people who believe that Jesus was a prophet, but yet an outspoken and historically important and relevant individual, well that is okay too. I know I digressed, but, who would give this a thumbs down?!?!?! Hmmmmm.....🤗🕊🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅
You, sir, are a refreshing splash of true knowledge in a sea of TH-cam tsunami blah, blah, blah. Thanks!!!
Excellent content again. You , Sir, deserve a bigger audience.
Thank you so very much for another factual and interesting video!
Per usual, chock full of information and scholarship. After his death (and typical of those lives filled with curiosity, wonder and intelligence), Dee was praised and demonized, Alias Ashmole was sure Dee a genious, particularly in math and research while Meric Casaubon was the man who wrote the "hit piece" A TRUE AND FAITHFUL RELATION... the book you mention, that concentrates solely on Dee's dabbling with the occult. Thank you, again, for sharing your scholarship.
Thanks for this outstandingly interested video! Dee was indeed a fascinating person.
Terry Hickman So was his brother Lenny Dee.
This is my favorite channel. As always great content.👍👍👍
So many fascinating people in Tudor times - thanks History Guy
James Bunn just think of all the fascinating people throughout history, I bet there’d be a lot of them! And not just once or two here or there, but whole towns too. Did you hear about the town in the Middle Ages that pretended to suffer from madness just to avoid King John from building a highway through their village. It’s a pretty funny story but also kinda backfired on them too.
@@jo-vf8jx - ty much - never heard about madness in his reign except for him of course - I love how Shakespeare wrote John as a psychopath in Tudor times of course - about to google "mad village King John"
Excellent as always I am on an Elizabeth binge so wonderful timing :-)
This one was a surprise. A very pleasant one. Because it hits very close to home. My mother worked for years on the Enochian language. The primary reason that understanding of the language is not more common is because it was broken as Dee left it. It only worked to a point then failed. My mother discovered the final two keys that make it work and her work is often referenced.
One thing you didn't cover about the language, and that I think most miss with his talk of conversing with angels, is the concept is based on strong scientific theory. And I'm not talking about the fact that quite a few religions talk about a universal language once spoken. I'm talking about the idea that _all_ languages in the world must have a common root, just like all humans do. How we interact with the universe is based on how we can perceive and manipulate it. And that is the same no matter where you are born or when. The theory behind the Enochian language is that every base action or thought has a sound that is associated with it. And those base sounds are use in the making of the words of the different languages. Not saying that all the different words have similar sounds. Rather if you understand what the base sounds are, you can understand almost any word. This is due to us, as a species, putting together sounds that evoke the meaning the object conveys to us. Take for example the word "rock". All languages I looked at pronounced is it with an "aa" sound. Which in Enochian is "Forever; forevermore, always; eternal, eternally. " The rest of the sounds around it deal more with how the persons who codified the word saw it. For example a _really_ rough translation of "rock" would be "begin to move the eternal to make useful". Which brings us to the other point about Enochian that kept it from becoming widely accepted. Only the base sounds matter. There are no hard and fast "words" in Enochian. They change, either subtly or drastically depending on your use. For example "hammer" is a "rock" that is used with divine intent and knowledge to create. Roughly speaking. ;-)
hi,thank you.
Philosophy as the basis for language.
What was your mother's name?
@@robnedloh9686 Mom. Duh. What else? Heh... sorry, couldn't help myself. Patricia A. Shaffer
Ok, 1st, are you familiar with Stan Tenen (sp?) and the Meru foundation?
2nd, what do you think of Laycock's Enochian dictionary and did your mother contribute?
Look so forward to your videos!
An individual that truly deserves to be remembered.
I follow your daily videos as a refreshment to my mind. Absolutely fascinating to any history buff for the wide variety of topics presented.
Thanks for sharing. I am glad I found this.
As always, very pleasing to watch and learn.
Gratitude & Respect Professor!!
Thank you! Information that I did not know about Dee and Kelley!
John Dee to Edward Kelly to the Golden Dawn and Aleister Crowley to The Beatles. 🐞 Thank You History Guy for the Great Connections!
Thank you for this episode on Dee!
Fascinating. I had never heard of Dr. Dee. Thank you!
Bravo! I've never heard of him but am so glad my first exposure was through the History Guy.
He was a great guy!
Love your videos on history. I've always loved history and sought to read as much as I could about it. By the way I love that tie.
This channel is so great. I watch it everyday.
Thank you, History Guy!
I love the Elizabethan era.
Lovely tie!!!
Fascinating. Thank you!
Thanks. When I was a young, foolish smart-aleck [Hoag], I decried such things as astrology and alchemy. But as I've gotten older, more wary (and hopefully a little less foolish!), I've come to recognize a simple truth: that these things were the beginnings of astronomy and chemistry (respectively). As such, I understand that we had to start somewhere, and that it was - due to human nature (ignorance & superstition) - bound to be tied up in mythology, mysticism, & magic. Now, I'm thankful for how far we've come, but still grateful to those who dared to be the ones to start at all. By putting forth an notion [or 'theory' as they're so often misrepresented], everyone else has the chance to weigh in on it. Thus, the scientific method gets kick-started into existence. Just as we went from washing clothes by hand at the river to washing machines, science is a progression of ideas. If done correctly, it inches us ever closer to some elusive concept called "truth." tavi.
COOL, whoohooo!!!
I adore John Dee, Kelly included, and I'm sitting right next to my prized black hardback Magickal Childe copy of "A True and Faithful", next to my giant floppy "Secret Teachings of All Ages", next to a bunch of Crowley, etc.
I think it would be fun if you covered Jack Parsons, he's my favorite person and he's on Drunk History, best episode ever!
What is the philosophers stone?
@@mclum77 In what sense? Real or Metaphysical?
@@nathanwalker6360 through many hours, I'd say within.
Yeah i think its about turning your soul into gold, not literally of course.
I'm a great admirer of your work. It would help me if you mentioned the year more frequently.
Whatever Dr Dee and his friends were on, I'll have some as well please ;) I continually look forward to your interesting videos which cover stories usually hard to find elsewhere!
Love the history that you bring to us
Another great history gem!! I love this channel! History Guy never disappoints👏
I love "the history guy" and I learn so much from watching, all the interesting facts, etc. @7:00 though....... all I saw was Queenie, Blackadder, nanny and Melchet....... 🙈😂😂
Nice tie!
awesome as usual. Thank you
Check out the connection between John Dee and Edward De Vere. Good stuff.
Hi History Guy! A bit of info. for you. The Wisconsin Historical Society holds a series of competitions on local and statewide levels. High school students are to take a historical fact and develop a project. Can be a paper, a video, a play, etc. Local levels were held this past weekend and those winners will go to state level on April 13, 2019 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Maybe you might want to check it out. As always, you did a great job.
I'm a new sub from warching the battle of mactan. I do love history so much.
Interesting that now mathematics is considered the universal language and geometry the most important of sciences. So, I guess he was on to something.
David Harris: You don't know what you're babbling about. Geometry is minor study of mathematics. Analysis (Calculus) and abstract algebra are absolutely the most important divisions of math today!
@@roberttelarket4934 Pythagoras, Euclid and me would disagree.
David Harris: I happen to be a mathematician so therefore the argument is at an end!!!
@@roberttelarket4934 Anybody can be anything behind a keyboard on the internet. But, just for the record you are the one arguing I did not attempt to correct you or accuse you of "babbling". If you do not agree with my comments feel free to post your own.
@@davidharris6581 im right with you David, I too have done plenty of my own reasearch. This man is also attempting to berate me with his hollow claims. We are not two, we are one. Dan Winter and Vincent Bridges have some lectures on Dee's discoveries that I think you should most definitely watch!!!!!!!!!
Best one yet,
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Dee is one of my favorites of Tudor times. Great video!
The Tudor tutor.
Evil satanist. He would be in hell now.
Thank you history guy. I enjoyed your rendering of John Dee, but it also made me very sad, because for all Dee's accomplishments, astrologer Joan Quigley had so much more impact on the world and will be forgotten through the importance given to those who were far less than she. But I'll bet what's known about Joan, could make for a very good short snippet of history worth remembering :) Merv Griffin was right, Joan was always right. She had even given Merv the year, month and date Merv would be getting a divorce, yet she did that just after he'd married. She was a truly remarkable astrologer that John Dee would have been very humbled by. Just a small article of the few that survive. The Reagans buried Joan's work as it overshadowed their lime light, Quigley having predicted and timed everything, just as right and correctly as Merv Griffin had proclaimed her as when he recommended her to Nancy. Joan's book, "What Does Joan Say" is well worth the read and an easy read. I think it's the best start out there into a truly interesting lady who some say, ended the cold war.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sister-nancy-reagan-astrologer-nancy-873339
Very interesting reduction I’m enjoying them very much 🤗👍👍
I read a biography on Dee many years ago and found him fascinating. Thanks for covering him and filling in some background that the English author of the book clearly presumed everyone knew. (I'm pretty sure it was someone's Thesis.)
Another great posting.
You're an interesting guy .
Thanks
Thank you for your channel. I’ve been binging on it. If you haven’t done it already, I'd love to see a vid on the impromptu Christmas truce and soccer game of WW1
"So you say that the spirits are instructing you that I should share my wife with you?"
"Uhhhh, yes. Yes they are."
What wasn't mentioned here is that Kelley also had no ears, which was a common punishment for fraud in England in those days. So that if a guy shows up with a 'sure thing', if he's got no ears you know immediately what he's about. Yet still Dee, for whatever reasons, trusted the man like his life depended on it. Very odd.
@@mickey4125 it always makes me mad to hear about the fraud Kelley because John Dee seemed like a great guy and showed common sense before they got together
@@hillbillyclassof1961 I know right!? Dee is honestly a hero of mine. I consider him to be kind of like an English Da Vinci, but with demons.
I mean it sounds like he was doing a fair bit of courtly spying across Europe for Elizabeth I, so maybe it was a cover story of sorts? Who knows...
@@mickey4125 if he was working for the crown why did his library get sacked? It seemed that Kelley dismantled him psychologically and he wound up a ruined man as a result
@@hillbillyclassof1961 That seems most likely. He was definitely working in Elizabeth I's court for a while, I just don't know why he wandered off with Kelley. I guess I kind of hoped there was an ulterior motive for the trip, but I think you're right, Kelley broke him somehow and they just went rambling off.
Didn't his extensive library 'mysteriously' burn down or something? At his house in Mortlake?
First heard about John Dee when I found info on my ancestor John Field. They were arrested together in 1555 for witchcraft 🧙♂
How did you trace your lineage?
Great info once again!
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great work. i sure do look forward to your assessment of the Bellum Socii.
Oh, when I heard the name 'John Dudley', I knew there was trouble coming....
A fascinating portrait of a man and a time in which science as we know it now was still emerging. Nowadays it's not well-remembered how science was, for a long time, intertwined with notions of natural magic and heavenly influences we would consider pseudo-scientific today. Johannes Kepler cast horoscopes for wealthy patrons (it helped pay the rent) and you mentioned how Isaac Newton wrote about alchemy. It was mostly in the 18th century that science shed its formerly magical connections, although bad scientific ideas based on erroneous premises are a problem right down to the present day, and probably always will be.
A very good video.
Great vlog as always! Have you made an episode about the work of Mr. Celcius and the other temp of F?
Hey History Guy. I enjoy your videos and would like to see a video on the history and details on your hats. How about it?
Love this channel, if your open for suggestions, a video on a couple of the Habsburg/Ottoman battles would be interesting.
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The engraving at 10.14 shows John Dee - to the right of picture - with Edward Kelly, calling a spirit at 12 midnight at Walton le Dale in Lancashire, their location is the crematory of St Leonards's Church, Walton-le-Dale.
I WAKE UP IN THE MORNING FEELING LIKE IM JOHN DEE
Jack Wills I wake up in the morning feeling like I should just go back to sleep.
Two minor details: Louvain is not in Brussels (it's a city near Brussels, at 25 km), and Bohemia is not in modern day Poland (it's in modern day Czech Republic). I love to watch your videos.
bohemia and modern poland are not the same sorry bohemia is today czech republic
If you could do a piece on Annerin who wrote the Y Gododin, and Uther Pendragon, who was mentioned in it, and King Arthurs Sire who a lot of people think didn't even exist, it would be so wonderful to have that part of history illuminated.
Wait.. do people think scientists aren't still looking for the philosopher's stone? They're talking about uploading a human consciousness into a computer and all kinds of attempts at immortality.
It's the same thing except now we're all too proud to admit that's what we're doing.
I wrote a horror novel in which John Dee is used as the founder of a secret monster hunting club/cult.
He is a very useful fellow for fantasy fiction writers. :)
When Dee called upon the angels for answers to the questions he could find no answers, he did what early creators of science did, they gave over to the gods when they got to the limit of their understanding.
Kepler and Copernicus did the same thing.
At the time, it appeared to make perfect sense, to call upon magic when you run out of answers or hit the limits of your own understanding.
In my quest for knowledge of all things, years ago I wandered into the teachings of Dee and it brought the sharpest rebuke from the Holy Spirit I ever experienced. I never went further. Don’t go too deep into these arts, the price is not worth what you get.
Been reading The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel and that's where I found about John Dee. He is a pretty interesting person
Wake up in the morning feeling like im john dee
Hehehe is your real name John Doe
Got my black magic and book and drew a circle around me
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A great survey of one of my favourite historical figures. He is a model for Shakespeares Prospero. ..Have you ever thought of a film on Colonel Blood and the theft of the Crown Jewels?
Why have I never heard of him before? He sounds amazing!
We tend to forget that the occult was the leading edge of inquiry for most of our past; Galileo was astrologer to the Medicis. Throughout most of the Common Era our most learned men "knew" there were four elements, the celestial lights were set in concentric aetherial spheres around the earth, rats were formed in piles of rags, heavier objects fell faster than light objects, and most diseases were the product of miasmas. Our "knowledge" must always be tempered by caution: we could be wrong about literally anything.
Five elements, the fifth was akin to mystery at the core of being. It's influence on language survives, you have probably heard of it often - quintessential, quintessence. (Five in Latin - quinque, fifth is quinta.)
_The aether came to be described as the pemptē ousia ("fifth element") in Greek, even though in Aristotle's writings it was usually mentioned as superior in order and significance to the other four. The phrase translated in Medieval Latin as quinta essentia and found its English spelling on a path through Middle French._
www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/quintessence-origin-meaning-history-elements
Fascinating!
Most unbiased video ever!
"Angels would never behave as those spirits did...."
John drew a picture of the "angel" him and Kelly were conjuring....You would immediately recognize it as a "alien gray"......!
(CoIncedentally......Alister Crowley drew a picture of his spirit guide....also an alien gray.....AND IT WENT BY THE SAME NAME.......)
Much of this I learned in school. I know I'm old but do they still teach this stuff in school?
thank you for this video, i read a bio on dr dee when i was about 11 years old and have been obsesd with him sence, tho little known and recognised by meany he was a powerful man who got a little to big for his shoulders lol
Yes, good.
Dee was an ASTROLOGER and magician, he even selected the time for the Queen's coronation. Due to academic prejudice they always say 'astronomer'; or lie and say they only did or for the money and didn't really believe in it. They were ardent students of astrology. So was Kepler who devised a system of long range weather forecasting using astrology.
He was, and the episode discusses his astrology. But he was also an astronomer, a supporter of Copernican theory.
Fascinating! Thank you for telling us about Dr. Dee! Angels would indeed be a good source of mediation between stubborn schools of Christians! :-)
Can you do a video on Nicholas Flamel?
I've wanted to burn a math book or two myself.
This is from an actual text:
"Any base affected by a negative exponent is the same as 1, but divided by that same base with a positive exponent as the same absolute value as the negative exponent."
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Thank you for sharing this. I have read that John Dee may have been the original 007 later used by Ian Fleming's James Bond
Dr John dee one of my fav subjects
Incredible!
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Louvain is a city in Belgium separate from Brussels, being about 30 km to the east. It is the site of oldest university in the world. It is also where the Stella Artois brewery is located.
Could you do a video like this on Edward Kelley? Really great video! 👍🏻
To extinguish the light of knowledge is to invite darkness. To understand the world around you is to invite that light to show you the way.
"1+1=2"
"What is this SORCERY"
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The concept of zero as a digit was pretty suspicious to most peasants. How could nothing (zero) be something (a necessary digit for base 10 calculation)?
Great video sir. If you take requests Colonel Stanislav Petrov would be a great topic.
Excellent!
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