List of Illustrations. 



ATTRACTIVE INITIALS AND TAIL-PIECES THROUGHOUT. 



Frontispiece. Brozik's "Rudolphe chez son alchimiste". 

 Title-page. From Musaeum Hermeticum. 



Chapter I. Queen Elizabeth. 



Dr. John Dee. 

 II. Bridge of Carl IV, and the Hradschin, Prague. 



The Cathedral of St. Veit. 

 " III. Tenier's Alchemist. 



Birth of the Philosophers' Stone (from Der Hermetische 



Triumph) . 



IV. Rudolph II, German Emperor. 

 Dr. Dee's Shew Stone. 

 A Successful Transmutation. 

 V. Edward Kelley, "The Golden Knight." 



Kelley's Horoscope. 

 " VI. The Hradschin, Prague. 



German Hall. 



" VII. Augustus of Saxony. 







Leonhard Thurneisser. 

 VIII. Uraniborg. 



The Belvedere. 

 Monument to Tycho Brahe. 

 IX. John Kepler. 



