The site of the Roanoke colony had been chosen sight unseen by Thomas Harriot, an Oxford-educated court astronomer, mathematician, linguist, and navigator. Not coincidentally, he was also one of the magus John Dee’s proteges.
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The site of the Roanoke colony had been chosen sight unseen by Thomas Harriot, an Oxford-educated court astronomer, mathematician, linguist, and navigator. Not coincidentally, he was also one of the magus John Dee’s proteges.