A spellbinding portrait of Queen Elizabeth's conjuror - the great philosopher scientist and magician Dr John Dee (1527-1608) and a history of Renaissance science that could well be the next 'Longitude'.John Dee was one of the most influential philosophers of the Elizabethan Age. A close confidant of Queen Elizabeth he helped to introduce mathematics to England promoted the idea of maths as the basis of science anticipated the invention of the telescope charted the New World and created one of th