Go ahead and enlighten me on John Dee.

>>24500391 (OP)
No

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He boiled piss until it glowed.

Enslaved by semitic desert demons

>>24500391 (OP)
Dee was an exceptionally talented mathematician and astronomer. He lectured on Euclid in Paris to packed halls and was offered professorships at top European universities, which he declined. He made significant contributions to navigation, developing new instruments and techniques

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>>24500391 (OP)
Magician who summoned demons

Great philosopher who got seduced into practicing sorcery, paid the price for it, and hopefully repeated

>>24502018
*repented

He's our guy and he wishes us the best

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>>24500391 (OP)
There's a good Iron Maiden song written about him.

>>24500391 (OP)
Magus who got pranked

>>24501912
>lectured on Euclid
So...he taught lessons on babby-tier geometry that even grammar school students as young as 7 had to know? Bruh, that's like bragging about "lecturing on fractions and exponentiation".

>>24504767
Keep the name of Euclid out of your filthy mouth, do you not know the meaning of Euclid

>>24500391 (OP)
He summoned angels and got high with them.

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>>24504927
Yes, Euclid was the guy who write the Elements, the book on synthetic geometry that was so well-known prior to the 20th century that even impoverished shtetl Jews like Baruch Spinoza and the sons of farmers born in log cabins out in the Midwest like Abraham Lincoln knew and could cite theorems from. It was basically "Lil Bab's First Book of Shapes And How to Draw With a Compass and a Sxe".

>>24500391 (OP)
Decent co-host of Unpopular Opinions

>>24505005
You are trying to make a great thing appear insignificant by appealing to its elementary nature but if I take the basis of elementary nature away from all of the thousands of years of subsequent mathematics I am left with nothing, this is why the study of euclid's magnitudes is revered and how I can tell you are speaking about a book you never read,

The shoulder of a giant

>>24506531
I'm not claiming Euclid wasn't an important geometer. He was probably to geometry what Homer was to poetry. What I am claiming, however, is that being relegated to teaching geometry straight off Euclid's Elements is the equivalent of being relegated to teaching children lessons on the American Revolution. Like, sure, it's impactful, but it's also basic af. A nigga should NOT be in his mid-50's and still stuck recitin off babby-tier geometry books (instead of, y'know, doing innovative mathematical research).

>>24506556
John Dee was not a nigger

>>24506577
You're missing the point here. I'm saying John Dee was the Renaissance era equivalent of those math teachers who are stuck teaching pre-algebra and trigonometry to middle school students for 40 years in a row in spite of having a master's degree, or worse yet, a fucking PhD in Pure Math.

>>24500391 (OP)
he consorted with fallen angels to make english the lingua franca of the world

>>24504767
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>>24506556
I had to read Euclid in college, and he's absolutely not "babby tier." The Elements was the standard because of its clarity and high degree of rigor, not because it was ezpz. Go look at the treatment of the Platonic solids and try to tell without blustering that that's babby-tier.

>>24506598
Lad, kidz back in de day had to memorize Latin and Greek conjugation and declension tables, in addition to learning how to play the harpischord, fencing, botany, astronomy, and other arts and sciences. Euclid's Elements absolutely WAS basic-@$$ shit back in those days. Kids these days are just dumb cuz they grow up watching YouTube Shorts brainrot. Education started going downhill as soon as the movie camera was invented and people could get their high-speed dopamine hits from watching guys shooting each other on the screen, as well as Charlie Chaplin short films.

>>24506621
The decline in educational rigour actually coincides with and is caused by academia turning away from Euclid not because of Charlie Chaplin and this is documented in the work of Lewis Carroll's book titled Euclid and his modern rivals published in 1879

>>24506621
>Euclid's Elements absolutely WAS basic-@$$ shit back in those days
No, it wasn't, you're talking out of your ass, the Elements, up through the 19th century, was college and university level. Lincoln was an *adult* when he turned to Euclid. For every Russell who had it taught by private tutors as a child of a noble family, the vast majority of students of Euclid learned the Elements as young adults.

>>24500391 (OP)
Read this

>>24500391 (OP)
A fascinating figure to support the conspiracy theories about the intersection between the occult and glowies. He influenced the spread of the British Empire - including Britain spreading out to the New World, and the very phrase “the British Empire,” in his capacity as royal advisor, and he even claimed this advice was from preternatural inspiration. He was a spy for the British Crown, hence arguably a proto-version of MI6. The code name “007” for James Bond apocryphally/allegedly derives from a code used for John Dee, and at minimum there’s evidence Fleming read a memoir of Dee’s around the time of creating the James Bond character and it could’ve influenced him. The angels allegedly inspired him and his associate Edward Kelley to do wife-swapping before it was cool. Whitley Strieber claims some language he and others received from alleged extraterrestrial encounters in the 20th century marched up with Enochian, but coincidentally also with Gaelic. I believe the other account comes from the Andreasson affair (Betty Andreasson claimed ET contacts and books written on them), and Strieber is the one to have noticed the linguistic connection when studying such books to shed light on his own experiences.

>>24506665
Off by one damn

Would I be wildly wrong if I think of him as a sort of British Rasputin?

>>24506741
isn’t rasputin synonymous with royal embarrassment and charlatanism though?

>>24507162
Isn't John dee somewhat a mystic who had influence in the court

>>24507183
thats about where the similarity ends