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How did Casaubon get things so wrong?

neilwilkes

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Especially with the engraving of Dee's 'Holy Table'.
Everything about every printed version that I can find is wrong.
The Central letters are flipped left/right
The circles & squares in the Hexagram are flipped top - bottom
The outer lettering is utterly wrong both left/right as well as up/down
I cannot believe this is either accidental or carelessness - it has got to be deliberate.

Check Dr Skinners current edition of TFR (titles 'Dr John Dee's Spiritua;l Diaries), specifically pp 23-24 where you can see what I mean.
It would seem that I have to take a scan of the pub;lished table, break it into hundreds of component parts & remake it from scratch in PhotoShop.
Aargh!
 
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