John Dee
16th-century English mathematician, astrologer, and alchemist
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Updated 2026-05-29
Elizabethan polymath who advised the queen on everything from astrology to colonization. Dee's massive library and obsession with alchemy made him the era's go-to guy for the occult, and he basically invented the phrase "British Empire.
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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.
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