John Dee

1527–1609 · 16th-century English mathematician, astrologer, and alchemist

Topics: learning, mathematics

• There is (gentle reader) nothing (the works of God only set apart) which so much beautifies and adorns the soul and mind of man as does knowledge of the good arts and sciences.

  — John Dee

• It is by the straight line and the circle that the first and most simple example and representation of all things may be demonstrated, whether such things be either non-existent or merely hidden under Nature's veils.

  — John Dee