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    On the origins of Dee’s mathematical programme: The John Dee–Pedro Nunes connection
    Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 43 (3): 460-469. 2012.
    In a letter addressed to Mercator in 1558, John Dee made an odd announcement, describing the Portuguese mathematician and cosmographer Pedro Nunes as the ‘most learned and grave man who is the sole relic and ornament and prop of the mathematical arts among us’, and appointing him his intellectual executor. This episode shows that Dee considered Nunes one of his most distinguished contemporaries, and also that some connection existed between the two men. Unfortunately not much is known about this…Read more