The 16th-century courtier John Dee, a scientific adviser to ... but to the Aztec Empire. Obsidian mirrors such as Dee's were known from Aztec culture, but there were no records on his mirror's ...

The obsidian mirror with the Elizabeth I connection belonged to John Dee, an adviser of hers from when she became queen in 1558 and through the 1570s. Dee served as the queen’s astrologer and ...

The team studied four objects in the British Museum – John Dee's mirror, two other Aztec mirrors, and a polished rectangular obsidian slab. This method revealed that all four of the obsidian ...

A portrait of John Dee by and anonymous artists (around ... and discovered that they too had Aztec origins. As with Dee’s mirror, the obsidian forming one of the other looking glasses originated ...

Scientists have shown that an obsidian hand-mirror once owned by the Renaissance polymath John Dee has Aztec origins, thus confirming a longstanding mystery. John Dee was quite the character.

Researchers used a portable x-ray fluorescence scanner to examine John Dee’s mirror, as well as three other obsidian objects—two almost-identical circular mirrors and a polished rectangular ...

Photo of archaeologist Elizabeth Healey with John Dee's obsidian Mirror. How this mirror came into Dee’s possession, however, is still not fully understood. Kuzmin notes that Dee was well ...

The obsidian was believed to have medicinal ... Given the history of mirror-gazing, one would expect that John Dee, who served as the queen’s philosopher during one of the most religiously ...

Stuart Campbell of the University of Manchester and his colleagues examined several obsidian objects held at the British Museum. One of the objects, a mirror, once belonged to John Dee ...

Dee may have bought the mirror in Bohemia (now part of the Czech Republic) in the 1580s. S. Campbell / Antiquity An obsidian “spirit mirror” used by John Dee, an advisor to England’s ...