The fantastic Dr Dee: angels, magic and the birth of modern science | Carole Jahme

As Damon Albarn's opera opens in London, Carole Jahme wonders why Dee has been written out of the history of scienceElizabethan England is enjoying a revival in the public imagination, with Shakespeare integral to the 2012 Cultural Olympiad and Damon Albarn's opera Dr Dee, about Elizabeth I's maverick astronomer, opening on Monday night at the Coliseum in London.It's worth remembering that Renaissance England was a diseased landscape. Average life expectancy was 35 years, more than 80% of patie...

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