John Dee explains the secrets
of the Monas Hieroglyphica
to Queen Elizabeth I in 1564
A mini-series of 11 videos,
each about 10 minutes long,
totaling to 1 hour and 40 minutes.
(Click on this link to my Vimeo Album with all
10 Videos: John Dee’s Monas Hieroglyphica)
http://vimeo.com/album/1805493
(Or click on any of these individual links.)
Introduction
Act 1 Jim Egan and his friend, Gerry McCayter, in Newport, Rhode Island
Act 2 1548, Gerard Mercator and John Dee, University of Louvain, Belgium
Act 3 1577, John Dee is writing to his friend, Gerard Mercator, from Mortlake
Act 4 1564, Queen Elizabeth I, John Dee and the Monas Hieroglyphica, London
Act 5 The triangle, two tip-to-tip tetrahedra, and the cuboctahedron
Act 6 The "closest packing of spheres" forms a cuboctahedron
Act 7 Consummata: the “+4, –4, octave; null nine” rhythm of number
Act 8 Metamorphosis: "12, times the primes"
Act 9 Metamorphosis in the Monas Hieroglyphica
Act 10 The Exemplar number (of all things numerable)
Act 11 Consummata and Metamorphosis are interrelated