![]() ![]() īy building such mechanical devices, Dee earned a reputation as a conjurer "dreaded" by neighborhood children. These devices, operated by means of compressed air, springs, strings, pulleys or levers, were seen by unsophisticated people (who did not understand their working principles) as magical devices which could only have been made with the aid of demons and devils. In Dee's time, "the Mathematicks" referred not merely to the abstract computations associated with the term today, but to physical mechanical devices which employed mathematical principles in their design. ![]() ![]() which giveth certain order to make strange works, of the sense to be perceived and of men greatly to be wondered at". He mentions an "art mathematical" called "thaumaturgy. The word was first anglicized and used in the magical sense in John Dee's book Mathematicall Praeface to Euclid's Elements (1570). In the 16th century, the word thaumaturgy entered the English language meaning miraculous or magical powers. ![]() See also: Practical Kabbalah and Baal Shem Magic ![]()
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