To warm up for some future posts about the 17th century Rosicrucian apologist John Heydon, here are images of the portraits that appear as frontispieces to several of his works. History has been unkind to Heydon - commentators dismissing him as an outright plagiarist of Francis Bacon, Fludd, Gaffarel and Agrippaamongst others. While I don't ( Read more... )