The British Museum holds a number of items relating to John Dee the Elizabethan scholar, mathematician, and magician. Among them is a gold disc almost 9cm across engraved with a diagram based on one of Edward Kelley's visions, recounted on the afternoon of Wednesday, 20th June 1584, supposedly by the angel named Ave.<\/p>
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