'Barely known' to whom, Mr Albarn?
It may be the circles I run in, but I would not describe the only Elizabethan occultist/sorcerer/magus/alchemist of whom most people have ever heard as 'a barely known 16th-century free-thinker'.
This may come from reading several too many novels in which Dr John Dee featured as a character and wondering 'why don't they think outside that box for a change?'.
But I don't recall a lot of 'who he?' when the Dee Crystal was nicked from the Science Museum.
One and quarter million hits on Google does not say 'obscure and little-known' to me. You do not have to have Elizabethan occultism as a Mastermind special subject to have heard of Dee.
This is not the first time I have felt moved to introduce Mr Albarn to Mr Codfish.
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