{"id":367,"date":"2009-12-25T16:18:06","date_gmt":"2009-12-25T16:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=367"},"modified":"2026-01-26T08:43:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T08:43:24","slug":"john-dee-revised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/john-dee-revised\/","title":{"rendered":"Dee, John"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dr John <\/strong><strong>D<\/strong><strong>ee<\/strong> <strong>(1527-1608) <\/strong>was born in London of Welsh parentage. Although he was a polymath, he was never a doctor.\u00a0He was\u00a0reputed to have had the largest library in England at that time, holding 3,000 books and 1,00 <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/DeeJohn02.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29882\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-29882\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/DeeJohn02-300x300.gif\" alt=\"Dee,John02\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/DeeJohn02-300x300.gif 300w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/DeeJohn02-150x150.gif 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>manuscripts. Dee was court astrologer to both Mary Tudor and Queen Elizabeth I and it is widely believed that he was the founder of the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/rosicrucians\/\">Rosicrucian<\/a> Order. His principal published work, <em>Monas Hieroglyphica<\/em> (1564). Dee is also credited with coining the phrase \u2018Brytish Impire\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some consider that Dee\u2019s life had been the inspiration for the work of a number of his literary contemporaries, including two plays, <em>Doctor Faustus<\/em> by Christopher Marlow and <em>The Tempest<\/em> by William Shakespeare.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Further information about Dee is available on a dedicated Internet site<sup>(<\/sup><sup>a<\/sup><sup>) <\/sup>and a 2015 reappraisal of his life can be read on another<sup>(b)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dee, like many others, was convinced that the newly discovered American continent was in fact Atlantis and prepared a map of the New World for Queen Elizabeth with one side marked <em>Atlantis<\/em>. This view he shared with <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/bacon-sir-francis\/\">Francis Bacon<\/a>.<b> <\/b>Until Dee, Atlantis speculation had been centred on Spanish Central America, but Dee moved it into British territory in North America.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><sup>(<\/sup><sup>a<\/sup><sup>)\u00a0 <\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20250717074841\/http:\/\/www.johndee.org\/\">The John Dee Society (archive.org)<\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><sup>(b)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2015\/02\/19\/john-dee-was-the-real-life-mer.html\">https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2015\/02\/19\/john-dee-was-the-real-life-mer.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr John Dee (1527-1608) was born in London of Welsh parentage. Although he was a polymath, he was never a doctor.\u00a0He was\u00a0reputed to have had the largest library in England at that time, holding 3,000 books and 1,00 manuscripts. Dee was court astrologer to both Mary Tudor and Queen Elizabeth I and it is widely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43,2259,4559,356,355,4558,4560,415],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-america","tag-atlantis","tag-elizabeth-i","tag-francis-bacon","tag-john-dee","tag-mary-rudor","tag-monas-hieroglyphica","tag-rosicrucians"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66234,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions\/66234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}