Re: fate of Jacobus's writings

[reeds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jim Reeds)]

On Jun 23, 20:56, Jorge Stolfi wrote:

...
> Jane Dee comes through Dee's diaries as a quite sensible woman.
> Indeed, considering all the crazy characters and adventures she had
> to put up with, she probably could have taught patience and endurance 
> to half the saints in Heavens. Her distress was probably
> quite justified.

In this connection, read D. Harkness's "Managing an experimental
household: the Dees of Mortlake and the practice of natural
philosophy" which appreared in Isis 88 (1997) pp.247-262.
(Isis is the journal of the History of Science Society.)

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