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  2. Atlantidis, (vulgariter, India, Occidentalis nominatæ) emendatior deſcriptio Hydrographica, quàm ulla alia adhuc evulgata, An. 1580.
  3. De modo Evangelii Jeſu Chriſti publicandi, propagandi, ſtabiliendique, inter Infideles Atlanticos: volumen magnum, libris diſtinctum quatuor: quorum primus ad Sereniſſimam noſtram Potentiſſimamque Reginam Elizabetham inſcribitur: Secundus, ad ſummos privati ſuæ ſacræ Majeſtatis conſilij ſenatores: Tertius, Hiſpaniarum Regem, Philippum: Quartus, ad Pontiſicem Romanum, Anno 1581.
  4. Navigationis ad Carthayum per Septentrionalia Scythiæ & Tartariæ litora, Delineatio Hydrographica: Arthuro Pit, & Carolo Jackmano Anglis, verſus illas partes Navigaturis, in manus tradita; cum admirandarum quarundam Inſularum, annotatione, in illis ſubpolaribus partibus jacentium, An. 1580.
  5. Hemiſphærij Borealis Geographica, atque Hydrographica deſcriptio: longè a vulgatis chartis diverſa Anglis quibuſdam, verſùs Atlantidis Septentrionalia litora, navigationem inſtituentibus, dono data, An. 1583.
  6. The Originals, and chief points, of our ancient Brytiſh Hiſtories, diſcourſed upon, and examined, An. 1583.
  7. An adviſe & difcourſe about the Reformation of the vulgar Julian yeare, written by her Majeſties commandement, and the Lords of the privy Councell, Anno 1582.
  8. Certain Conſiderations, and conferrings together, of theſe three ſentences, (aunciently accounted as Oracles (Noſce teipſum: Homo Homini Deus: Homo Homini Lupus, An. 1592
  9. De hominis Corpore, Spiritu, & Annima: ſive Microcoſmicum totius Philoſophiæ Naturalis Compendium, lib 1. Anno 159.

With many other Books, Pamphlets, Diſcourſes, Inventions, and Concluſions, in divers Arts and matters whoſe names, need not in this Abſtract to be notified: The moſt part of all which, here ſpecified, lie here before your Honours upon the Table, on your left hand. But by other books and Writings of another ſort, (if it ſo pleaſe God, and that he will grant me life, health, and due maintenance thereto, for ſome ten or twelve years next enſuing) I may, hereafter make plaine, and without doubt, this ſentence to be true, Plura latent, quam patent.

Thus far (my good Lord) have I ſet down this Catalogus, out of the foreſaid ſixt Chapter, of the booke, whoſe title is this:

  2. The Compendious rehearſall of John Dee, bis dutifull declaration and proofe of the courſe and race of his ſtudions life, for the ſpace of halfe an hundred years, now (by Gods favour and help) fully ſpent, &c.

To which compendious rehearſall, doth now belong an Appendix, of theſe two laſt years: In which I have had many juſt occaſions, to confeſſe, that Homo Homini Deus, and Homo Homini Lupus, was and is an Argument, worthy of the decyphering, and large diſculsing as may, one day, hereafter (by Gods help) be publiſhed, in ſome manner very ſtrange. And beſides all the rehearſed Books & Treatiſes of my writing, or handling hitherto, I have juſt cauſe, lately given me to write & publiſh a Treatiſe, with Title (50) De Horizonte Æternitatis: to make evident, that one Andreas Libavius, in a book of his, printed the laſt year, hath unduly conſidered a phraſe of my Monas Hyero-glyphica:

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