UPNOR, EARL OF: see Anglesey, Louis.
VILLIERS, BARBARA(LADYCASTLEMAINE, DUCHESS OFCLEVELAND): 1641-1709. Indefatigable mistress of many satisfied Englishmen of high rank, including Charles II and John Churchill.
WALBROOK, EARL OF: see Ham, Thomas.
WATERHOUSE, ANNE: 1649-. Nee Anne Robertson. English colonist in Massachusetts. Wife of Praise-God Waterhouse.
WATERHOUSE, BEATRICE: 1642-. Nee Beatrice Durand. Huguenot wife of Sterling.
WATERHOUSE, CALVIN: 1563-1605. Son of John, father of Drake.
WATERHOUSE, DANIEL: 1646-. Youngest (by far) child of Drake by his second wife, Hortense.
WATERHOUSE, DRAKE: 1590-1666. Son of Calvin, father of Raleigh, Sterling, Mayflower, Oliver, and Daniel. Independent trader, political agitator, leader of Pilgrims and Dissidents.
WATERHOUSE, ELIZABETH: 1621-. Nee Elizabeth Flint. Wife of Raleigh Waterhouse.
WATERHOUSE, EMMA: 1656-. Daughter of Raleigh and Elizabeth.
WATERHOUSE, FAITH: 1689-. Nee Faith Page. English colonist in Massachusetts. (Much younger) wife of Daniel, mother of Godfrey.
WATERHOUSE, GODFREYWILLIAM: 1708-. Son of Daniel and Faith in Boston.
WATERHOUSE, HORTENSE: 1625-1658. Nee Hortense Bowden. Second wife (m. 1645) of Drake Waterhouse, and mother of Daniel.
WATERHOUSE, JANE: 1599-1643. Nee Jane Wheelwright. A pilgrim in Leiden. First wife (m. 1617) of Drake, mother of Raleigh, Sterling, Oliver, and Mayflower.
WATERHOUSE, JOHN: 1542-1597. Devout early English Protestant. Decamped to Geneva during reign of Bloody Mary. Father of Calvin Waterhouse.
WATERHOUSE, MAYFLOWER: 1621-. Daughter of Drake and Jane, wife of Thomas Ham, mother of William Ham.
WATERHOUSE, OLIVERI: 1625-1646. Son of Drake and Jane. Died in Battle of Newark during English Civil War.
WATERHOUSE, OLIVERII: 1653-. Son of Raleigh and Elizabeth.
WATERHOUSE, PRAISE-GOD: 1649-. Eldest son of Raleigh and Elizabeth. Immigrated to Massachusetts Bay Colony. Father of Wait Still Waterhouse.
WATERHOUSE, RALEIGH: 1618-. Eldest son of Drake, father of Praise-God, Oliver II, and Emma.
WATERHOUSE, STERLING: 1630-. Son of Drake. Real estate developer. Later ennobled as Earl of Willesden.
WATERHOUSE, WAITSTILL: 1675-. Son of Praise-God in Boston. Graduate of Harvard College. Congregational preacher.
WEEM, WALTER: 1652-. Husband of Emma Waterhouse.
WHEELWRIGHT, JANE: see Waterhouse, Jane.
WILHELMINACAROLINE: see Caroline, Princess of Brandenburg-Ansbach.
WILKINS, JOHN(BISHOP OFCHESTER): 1614-1672. Cryptographer. Science fiction author. Founder, first chairman, and first secretary of the Royal Society. Private chaplain to Charles Louis, Elector Palatinate. Warden of Wadham (Oxford) and Master of Trinity (Cambridge). Prebendary of York, Dean of Ripon, holder of many other ecclesiastical appointments. Friend of Nonconformists, Supporter of Freedom of Conscience.
WILLESDEN, EARL OF: see Waterhouse, Sterling.
WILLIAMIIOF ORANGE: 1626-1650. Father of the better-known William III of Orange. Died young (of smallpox).
WILLIAMIIIOF ORANGE: 1650-1702. With Mary, daugher of James II, co-sovereign of England from 1689.
WINTERKING: see Frederick V .
WINTERQUEEN: see Stuart, Elizabeth .
WREN, CHRISTOPHER: 1632-1723. Prodigy, Natural Philosopher, and Architect, a member of the Experimental Philosophical Club and later Fellow of the Royal Society.
YORK, DUKE OF: The traditional title of whomever is next in line to the English throne. During much of this book, James, brother to Charles II.
DE LAZEUR: Eliza was created Countess de la Zeur by Louis XIV.
A work like this one hangs in an immense web of dependencies that cannot be done justice by a brief acknowledgments page. Such a project would be inconceivable were it not for the efforts of scholars and scientists dating back to the era of Wilkins and Comenius, and extending into the present day. Not to say as much would be unjust. But in a work of fiction, which necessarily strays from historical and scientific truth, acknowledgments can backfire. Serious scholars mentioned below should be applauded for their good work, never blamed for my tawdry divagations.
The project would not have happened it all were it not for serendipitous conversations several years ago with George Dyson and Steven Horst.
The following scholars (again in alphabetical order) have published work that was essential to the completion of this project. While eager to give them due credit, I am aware that they may be chagrined by my work’s many excursions from historical truth. Readers who want to know what really happened should buy and read their books, while blaming the errors herein on me: Julian Barbour, Gale E. Christianson, A. Rupert Hall, David Kahn, Hans Georg Schulte-Albert, Lee Smolin, Richard Westfall, D. T. Whiteside.
Particular mention must go to Fernand Braudel, to whose work this book may be considered a discursive footnote. Many other scholarly works were consulted during this project, and space does not permit mentioning them here. Of particular note is Sir Winston Spencer Churchill’s six-volume biography of Marlborough, which people who are really interested in this period of history should read, and people who think that I am too long-winded should weigh.
Special thanks to Bela and Gabriella Bollobas, Doug Carlston, and Tomi Pierce for providing me with access to places I could not have seen (Bollobas) or worked in (Carlston/Pierce) otherwise. George Jewsbury and Catherine Durandin and Hugo Durandin DeSousa provided timely assistance. Greg Bear lent me two books; I promise to return them! And for talking to me about gunpowder, and listening equably to the occasional rant about Alchemy, thanks to Marco Kaltofen, P. E., of the Natick Indian Plantation and Needham West Militia Companies.
Helping in many ways to make this possible on the publishing end, and exhibiting superhuman patience, were Jennifer Hershey, Liz Darhansoff, Jennifer Brehl, and Ravi Mirchandani.
Jeremy Bornstein, Alvy Ray Smith, and Lisa Gold read the penultimate draft and supplied useful commentary. The latter two, along with the cartographer Nick Springer, participated in creation of maps, diagrams, and family trees. More detail is to be found on the website BaroqueCycle.com.
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