Wolf Fleetwood Ross

so D is in the low countries in not called the Netherlands yet, but you know, he's getting this reputation as a map maker, an astronomer, a mathematician, uh,

He would even get so big that kings from other kingdoms, big ones, would send him letters to offer him positions in their court, and he would turn them all down, and he would live to regret that.

So in the 1550s, he's in Paris.

He's lecturing on Euclid's elements, which imagine this, like that was like packed hall.

That was maybe the punk band of the night was D like they had to usher people back from the hall because everyone was trying to get into his lecture on Euclid's elements.

That sounds great.

Yeah, his presence is growing and he's ready to come back to England and sort of like claim his spot as a top philosopher in England or a top intellectual.

And he finds England much changed.

Obviously, King Henry has died and put his very, very young son, King Edward, on the throne, who's 11 at this time and whose feet famously dangle off the throne.

And Dee gets an audience with him.

presents him with two books about theories on astrology that are extremely complicated.

The 11-year-old... The 11-year-old?

Yes.

I'm sorry.

Like, presents them, like... He's, like, playing peek-a-boo.

Yeah, does not understand it.

Like, does not know what is going on in these books.

But...

He gives John Dee a pension and a small role at the court, sort of like helping with maps and minor astrological matters.

If there was a comet, he would be the one that was called in to sort of talk about it.