Elizabethan polymath, mathematician, astrologer, alchemist; coined "British Empire" as a political concept; proposed the calendar reforms that became the British Gregorian adoption (1752). Cipher to Queen Elizabeth I read 007. Recommended cryptographic techniques to William Cecil + Francis Walsingham, founding the modern English intelligence service. The original-figure of the documented intelligence-occult parallel that Osterrieder traces forward through the centuries. Died December 1608 or March 1609 in Mortlake. (Claim WiU-4-002.)
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