Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor

the great success which attended the first telescopic observations of galileo induced him to apply his best instruments to the other planets of our system the attempts which had been made to deprive him of the honour of some of his discoveries combined probably with a desire to repeat his observations with better telescopes led him to announce his discoveries under the veil of an enigma and to invite astronomers to declare within a given time if they had observed any phenomena in the heavens Before the close of 1610, Galileo excited the curiosity of astronomers by the publication of his first enigma.

Kepler and others tried and waned to decipher it, but in consequence of the Emperor Rudolf requesting a solution to the puzzle, Galileo sent him the following clue.

i have observed that the most remote planet is triple in explaining more fully the nature of his observation galileo remarked that saturn was not a single star but three altogether nearly touching one another he described them as having no relative motion and as having the form of three o's namely o o o the central one being the larger than those on each side of it although galileo had announced that nothing new appeared in other planets yet he soon communicated to the world another discovery of no slight interest the enigmatical letters in which it was concealed formed the following sentence cintiae figuras amulater mater amoron venus rivals the phases of the moon galileo had observed venus when her disc was largely illuminated but having directed his telescope to see her when she was not far removed from the sun he saw her in the form of a crescent resembling exactly the moon at the same elongation he continued to observe her night after night during the whole time that she could be seen in the course of her revolution around the sun and he found that she exhibited the very same faces which resulted from her motion round the luminary Galileo had long contemplated a visit to the metropolis of Italy, and he accordingly carried his intentions into effect in the early part of the year 1611.

Here he was received with the distinction that was due to his great talents and his extended reputation.

Cruelty of Minister Walchendorff.

Tycho quits Denmark with his family and instruments.

is hospitably received by Count Branzu, who introduces him to the Emperor Rudolf.

The Emperor invites him to Prague.

Tycho wandered around after his time on the island, eventually ending up in Prague.

Yeah, and that's, like, where he became the imperial court astronomer to Rudolph II, who was then the Holy Roman Emperor.

Not bad.

It was in Prague that he employed an up-and-coming mathematician to help go through the mounds and mounds of data he collected on Hven.

The spirit grows up and is chiding them and flirting with them.

And one of the spirits tells them to go to Emperor Rudolph II and call him out, tell him to repent of his sins.

And John Deke goes to the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and tells him to repent of his sins.

Because of this angel telling him to do it, it's an absolutely bizarre, bizarre story.

Inside the book was a letter dated sixteen sixty-five from Johannes Marcus Marci, a rector of Charles University in Prague.

The letter claimed the book had once belonged to Emperor Rudolf II of Habsburg, who bought it for six hundred gold ducats, which was an immense sum at the time, believing it to be the work of the thirteenth-century polymath Roger Bacon.

From there, it passed through various alchemists and scholars, all of whom failed to decode it before it disappeared for nearly two hundred and fifty years.

So let's look at some of the theories.

If it is a cipher, it is one of such complexity that it predates the mathematical understanding of its time by centuries.

Then there's the possibility of the medieval hoax.

This theory suggests the manuscript was a high-end art object created to be sold to a wealthy collector like Rudolf II.

By creating a book that looked profoundly scientific in nature, a clever con artist could demand a high price.

Inside the book was a letter dated sixteen sixty-five from Johannes Marcus Marci, a rector of Charles University in Prague.

The letter claimed the book had once belonged to Emperor Rudolf II of Habsburg, who bought it for six hundred gold ducats, which was an immense sum at the time, believing it to be the work of the thirteenth-century polymath Roger Bacon.

From there, it passed through various alchemists and scholars, all of whom failed to decode it before it disappeared for nearly two hundred and fifty years.

So let's look at some of the theories.

If it is a cipher, it is one of such complexity that it predates the mathematical understanding of its time by centuries.

Then there's the possibility of the medieval hoax.

This theory suggests the manuscript was a high-end art object created to be sold to a wealthy collector like Rudolf II.

By creating a book that looked profoundly scientific in nature, a clever con artist could demand a high price.

just to put that out there at the time king maximilian ii owned the castle, but made Frederick's mother, Ursula Canacea, official steward in 1569.

So, Nataste finally bought the castle in 1602 from Rudolf II, Holy Roman Empire, Emperor, sorry, but not Empire, but Emperor.

But during his constant military campaign, Elizabeth maintained the castle in his absence, along with the Segeti country house and 17 adjacent villages.

After the wedding, the couple lived in Nadasdy's castle at Svar.

The House of Austria and its Subjects, 1600-1618 At the beginning of the seventeenth century the dominions of the German branch of the House of Austria were parceled out amongst the various descendants of Ferdinand I., the brother of Charles V.

The head of the family, the Emperor Rudolf II., was Archduke of Austria, a name which in those days was used simply to indicate the Archduchy itself and not the group of territories which are at present ruled over by the Austrian sovereign, and he was also King of Bohemia and of Hungary.

His brother Maximilian governed Tyrol, and his cousin Ferdinand ruled in Styria, Carinthia, and Carniola.

The main difficulty of government arose from the fact that whilst every member of the family clung firmly to the old creed, the greater part of the population, excepting in Tyrol, had adopted the new, that is to say, that on the great question of the day the subjects and the rulers had no thoughts in common.

But it was not long before Frederick's Lutheran subjects were offended by his Calvinistic proceedings.

In the royal chapel, pictures of the saints were ruthlessly torn down from the walls, and the great crucifix, an object of reverence to the Lutheran as well as the Catholic, was tossed aside like a common log of wood.

The treasures of art which Rudolf II had collected during his life of seclusion were catalogued that they might be offered for sale, and it is said that many of them were carried off by the officials entrusted with the duty.

And besides real grievances, there were others that were purely imaginary.

Decades later, the paintings turn up in Milan in the house of the sculptor Leone Leoni, who had worked for the emperor.

From Leoni's son, around 1600, they were bought by the man who would determine the next stage of their journey: Emperor Rudolf II, who resided in Prague, where he assembled the greatest art collection of his day.

And so the entire series was reunited in Prague, but not for long.

Io and Ganymede were soon taken to Vienna.