Topics & Characters

Characters, historical figures, events, and concepts throughout the novel.

People

• Daniel Waterhouse fictional — p.3
• Jack Shaftoe fictional — p.339
• Eliza fictional — p.350
• Isaac Newton — p.24
• Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz — p.260
• Enoch Root fictional — p.3
• Bob Shaftoe fictional — p.339
• Robert Hooke — p.78
• Louis XIV — p.22
• William III of Orange — p.3
• John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough — p.167
• Samuel Pepys — p.187
• Drake Waterhouse fictional — p.9
• Roger Comstock fictional — p.21
• John Comstock fictional — p.21
• Louis Anglesey, Earl of Upnor fictional — p.21
• Thomas More Anglesey fictional — p.21
• Knott Bolstrood fictional — p.21
• Gomer Bolstrood fictional — p.21
• Charles II — p.9
• Charles I — p.9
• James II — p.18
• Oliver Cromwell — p.21
• John Locke — p.170
• Comte d'Avaux — p.544
• Elizabeth Stuart, the Winter Queen — p.24
• Queen Anne — p.18
• Princess Caroline of Ansbach — p.18
• John Wilkins — p.22
• Henry Oldenburg — p.183
• Judge Jeffreys — p.246
• Duke of Monmouth — p.21
• Edward Teach (Blackbeard) — p.166
• The Bernoulli Family — p.305
• John Flamsteed — p.331
• Madame de Maintenon — p.531
• Marquis de Louvois — p.512
• Philippe I, Duke of Orléans — p.636
• Nicolas Fatio de Duillier — p.739
• Bonaventure Rossignol — p.811
• Nicaise Le Fébure — p.150
• Sir Winston Churchill (Cavalier) — p.167
• Christiaan Huygens — p.70
• Christopher Wren — p.51
• Jack Ketch — p.339
• Jean-Baptiste Colbert — p.512
• Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor — p.376
• Mary of Modena — p.774
• Nell Gwyn — p.613
• René Descartes — p.74
• Robert Boyle — p.51
• Sophia of the Palatinate — p.3
• William Laud — p.3

historical events

• Act of Uniformity (1662) — p.51
• Battle of Vienna (1683) — p.376
• Declaration of Indulgence — p.774
• Franco-Dutch War (1672–1678) — p.221
• Janissaries — p.350
• Nine Years' War (1688–1697) — p.855
• Pirates — p.37
• Restoration London — p.93
• Restoration Theater — p.236
• Siege of Maastricht (1673) — p.221
• The Barbary Slave Trade — p.376
• The Bloody Assizes — p.697
• The Devastation of the Palatinate — p.855
• The English Civil War — p.9
• The Glorious Revolution — p.8
• The Great Fire of London — p.160
• The Hanoverian Succession — p.18
• The Plague — p.5
• The Popish Plot — p.182
• The Thirty Years' War — p.3
• Treaty of Utrecht — p.8

institutions

• Cabinet Noir — p.688
• Coffeehouses — p.173
• Holy Roman Empire — p.350
• The Royal Mint — p.903
• The Royal Society — p.22

places

• Bedlam (Bethlem Royal Hospital) — p.182
• Binnenhof — p.697
• Gresham College — p.51
• Palace of Versailles — p.636
• Spanish Netherlands — p.3
• The Dutch Republic — p.51
• The Royal Exchange — p.716
• Trinity College, Cambridge — p.24
• Whitehall Palace — p.182

science

• Alchemy — p.11
• Computing Machines — p.271
• Fermat's Last Theorem — p.124
• Micrographia — p.74
• Natural Philosophy — p.21
• Newton's Optics — p.71
• Principia Mathematica — p.659
• Quicksilver (Mercury) — p.11
• Syphilis (The French Pox) — p.350
• The Calculus Priority Dispute — p.40
• The Discovery of Phosphorus — p.182
• The Longitude Problem — p.3
• Universal Characteristic — p.139
• Zeno's Paradox — p.165

religion and philosophy

• Apocalypticism — p.94
• Huguenots — p.90
• Jesuits — p.430
• Puritans — p.8
• Quakers — p.3

commerce and finance

• Amsterdam Stock Exchange — p.167
• Bills of Exchange — p.350
• VOC (Dutch East India Company) — p.167