Arthur Dee
Arthur Dee (1571-1651) was the eldest son of John Dee. Arthur accompanied his father in his peregrinations across Bohemia. He became a physician to Mikhail I, the founder of the Romanov Dynasty and resided in Moscow for fourteen years where he wrote his Fasciculus Chemicus, a collection of writings upon alchemy.Returning to England upon the death of his wife in 1637, Dee became physician to King Charles I. Upon his retirement Arthur Dee resided in Norwich, where he became a friend of Sir Thomas Browne. Arthur Dee died in October of 1651. Dee's relationship to Browne has been little explored, but upon his death it was to Browne that the bulk of Arthur Dee's alchemical manuscripts and books were bequeathed.
References
- The most informative detailed biography of Arthur Dee remains that of Charlotte Fell-Smith, published in 1909 [1].
- Correspondence by Sir Thomas Browne on Arthur Dee