CONTENTS. 



CHAPTBR. PAGE. 



I. Two English Adventurers 1 



II. The Solomon of Bohemia 10 



III. Gold Alley, Prague . .. 19 



IV. Rudolph and Doctor Dee ' . , . . . . . 30 

 Y. Rudolph and the "Golden Knight" 40 



VI. Rudolph's Art-Treasures 52 



VII. Seeking the Philosophers' Stone . . . . . ' . . 62 



VIII. The Man with a Silver Nose 74 



IX. Astronomical Wisdom and Astrological Folly ... 84 



X. Rudolph's Physicians . 96 



XL The Rudolphine Academy of Medicine 108 



XII. Fortunes and Misfortunes ........ 120 



XIII. The Secret Symbols of Pontanus' Letter 132 



XIV. A Tragedy in the Royal Mews 143 



XV. Rudolph's Dream 156 



XVI. Magic and Sorcery 167 



XVIL Rudolph at Work 182 



XVIIL Rudolph's Sovereignty and Death . . . . . . 195 



XIX. Decline of the Follies of Science 203 



