Scholar, courtier, magician the lost library of John Dee at the Royal College of Physicians

The extraordinary story of Tudor mathematician and mystic John Dee’s library told by Royal College of Physicians rare books librarian Katie Birkwood. A short film to accompany the free exhibition ’Scholar, courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee’, 18 January - 29 July 2016 at the Royal College of Physicians, Regent’s Park, London. The exhibition features John Dee’s mathematical, astronomical and alchemical text books, many elaborately annotated and illustrated by Dee’s own hand. Now held in the