John Dee

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About John Dee

John Dee was an English mathematician, astronomer, teacher, astrologer, occultist, and alchemist. He was the court astronomer for, and advisor to, Elizabeth I, and spent much of his time on alchemy, divination, and Hermetic philosophy. As an antiquarian, he had one of the largest libraries in England at the time. As a political advisor, he advocated the foundation of English colonies in the New World to form a "British Empire", a term he is credited with coining. Birthdays.fyi indexes this profile with birthday, age, profession cluster, source links, and nearby people born on July 13.

Before fame

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Trivia

English-Welsh mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer (died 1609). This page is tagged with Science, Historical, British, July 13.

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