Edward Kelley:
Alchemist, scryer and lawyer. A refugee from the Burning Times
of James VI.
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo:
The Court Painter of Rudolf II, designer of pageants, engineer.
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Emperor Rudolf II:
Emperor, patron of arts, sciences, and alchemy
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Johannes Kepler:
Imperial mathematician, Neo-Platonist, Scientist and discoverer
of the Laws of Celestial Motion.
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Michael Sendivogius:
Alchemist and discoverer of oxygen, was godson of Prince Laski
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Prince Albrecht Laski:
Ambassador, late of England. |
Cornelis Drebbel:
An alchemist and a great inventor; built submarines and oxygen tanks
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Matthias Habsburg:
Brother of Rudolf II, actually runs the Empire |
Rabbi Judah Loew:
Creator of the Golem, also expert on the science of visual illusions |
Johannes Pistorius:
Christian, Cabalist, religious advisor of Rudolf II
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Katharina Strada:
The Emperor’s Mistress, daughter of his court antiquarian, mother
of his “six very strange children”
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Juanelo Turriano:
Master engineer who builds automations and clockworks
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John Florio:
Late of the French Ambassador to England’s employ. Another refugee
from the England of James VI |
Jyesthadeva:
An Indian mathematician, guest at Rudolf’s court
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Julius Caesar Habsburg:
Rudolf’s son by Katharina Strada
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