Historical Figures 20 Questions

10. If by a "journal", you mean a contemporary account of his life - no. This also means he did not publish any memoir or autobiography.

Books have been written about him, but they are typical biographies.


Halftime summary:
An Englishman who lived between 1000 AD and 1700 AD.
Involved with politics, but also in many other areas.
A writer of works that, in his lifetime, he would have considered non-fiction.
Was never a head of state.
Died of old age i.e. natural causes.
Never published any journal, memoir or autobiography.
Best known in his own time for his political involvements, but better known today for his writings.

And because I let this slip by mistake to LooseCannon: it's not Samuel Pepys.

I warned you this one is extremely difficult... :P

And due to the difficulty of this game, I shall provide a hint.
One of the many things he did was to invent a new language, with help from one other person.
 
11. Yes, he was a mathematician. He was not only a mathematician - he was also several other things - but being a mathematician was one of his main areas of interest.
 
14. Yes, he was an alchemist.


I warned you this one is extremely difficult... :P ...so another hint:
There is a connection between this man and words you may find on the cover of Live After Death.
 
16. Yes, it is John Dee!

John Dee (July 13, 1527 — 1608 or 1609) was a noted English mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, occultist, and consultant to Queen Elizabeth I. He also devoted much of his life to alchemy, divination, and Hermetic philosophy.

Dee straddled the worlds of science and magic just as they were becoming distinguishable. One of the most learned men of his age, he had been invited to lecture on advanced algebra at the University of Paris while still in his early twenties. Dee was an ardent promoter of mathematics, a respected astronomer and a leading expert in navigation, having trained many of those who would conduct England's voyages of discovery. In one of several tracts which Dee wrote in the 1580s encouraging British exploratory expeditions in search of the Northwest Passage, he appears to have coined the term "British Empire".

The language he invented: he called it "the angelic language", but today it is usually called Enochian.

His connection to Live After Death: the H.P. Lovecraft quote on Eddie's tombstone is (in Lovecraft's fiction) from the Necronomicon, which (again, in Lovecraft's fiction) Dee translated from Greek to English.


Wasted selects the next "mystery guest".
 
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