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=== 1610-1613 Prague​ ===
[[File:AACHEN,_Hans_von_-_Portrait_of_Emperor_Rudolf_II_-_WGA.jpg|thumb|150px|Rudolf II]]=== 1610-1613 Prague​ ===
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*1610 October, the Drebbel family arrives at the court of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_II,_Holy_Roman_Emperor <u>''Emperor Rudolph II''</u>] in Prague. Drebbel demonstrates the Perpetuum Mobile, –probably- does chemical experiments and is involved in mining projects.
*1610 October, the Drebbel family arrives at the court of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_II,_Holy_Roman_Emperor <u>''Emperor Rudolph II''</u>] in Prague. Drebbel demonstrates the Perpetuum Mobile, –probably- does chemical experiments and is involved in mining projects.
*1612&nbsp; Emperor Rudolph II, Drebbel’s sponsor in Prague, dies in January. November 6, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Frederick,_Prince_of_Wales <u>Crown Prince Henry Frederick Stuart</u>], ‘the Renaissance prince’, Drebbel’s’ major sponsor in England, suddenly passes away from typhoid fever, 18 years old.[[File:Henry_Prince_of_Wales_after_Isaac_Oliver.jpg|thumb|150px|Henry Frederick Stuart]]
 
*1613 February; Drebbel travels back from Prague to London. Has no income, no patron: In&nbsp;[[PDF:1613 Letter to King James|<u>''a letter to King James I-VI''</u>]] he proposes to develop diverse interesting apparatus and instruments. Offers to optimize the exploitation of a silver mine and asks for permission to organize a lottery.
 
*1611 Rudolph II was stripped of all effective power by his younger brother Archduke Matthias, Drebbel was imprisoned for about a year.
 
 
*1612&nbsp; Emperor Rudolph II, Drebbel’s sponsor in Prague, dies on January 20th. November 6, 1612 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Frederick,_Prince_of_Wales <u>Crown Prince Henry Frederick Stuart</u>], ‘the Renaissance prince’, Drebbel’s’ major sponsor in England, suddenly passes away from typhoid fever, 18 years old.[[File:Henry_Prince_of_Wales_after_Isaac_Oliver.jpg|thumb|150px|Henry Frederick Stuart]]
 
 
*1613 February; Drebbel was released and travelled back from Prague to London. Has no income, no patron: In&nbsp;[[PDF:1613 Letter to King James|<u>''a letter to King James I-VI''</u>]] he proposes to develop diverse interesting apparatus and instruments. Offers to optimize the exploitation of a silver mine and asks for permission to organize a lottery.
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=== 1610-1613 Prague​ ===


  • 1610 October, the Drebbel family arrives at the court of Emperor Rudolph II in Prague. Drebbel demonstrates the Perpetuum Mobile, –probably- does chemical experiments and is involved in mining projects.


  • 1611 Rudolph II was stripped of all effective power by his younger brother Archduke Matthias, Drebbel was imprisoned for about a year.



  • 1613 February; Drebbel was released and travelled back from Prague to London. Has no income, no patron: In a letter to King James I-VI he proposes to develop diverse interesting apparatus and instruments. Offers to optimize the exploitation of a silver mine and asks for permission to organize a lottery.