Dr Dee features as a main protagonist in my novel The Blade in the Angel's Shadow, the catalyst for all that happens to Lament and Pieter. But his real life as the astrologer/advisor to Queen Elizabeth I, and one of the leading mathematicians, mages, and astronomers of his age is an adventure in its own right.
For your delectation, here is a brief fly by of the life of this extraordinary man who first created the idea of the British Empire and worked tirelessly towards that aim with the aid,...