ABSTRACT
This conclusion will look first at issues relating to John Dee and then draw together the strands pertaining to some of the broader issues that have arisen in the course of these studies. The main issue in previous discussions of Dee has centered on his intellectual filiaions and motivations. This has taken the form of associating him with a philosophical tradition, either the doctrines of Renaissance Neoplatonism, or the group of texts and ideas progressively elaborated in the Renaissance through a hermetic/kabbalist tradition in which Neoplatonism was associated with a strongly occult and magical philosophy. This latter approach is distilled in the idea of Dee as a magus and of magic as the central feature of his works and the motivation for both his work in science, and most notably his application of mathematics to the study of nature, and his religious life.
