The accredited and esoteric Tudor/Stuart, science-based occultist and 'Privy Invisible Metaphysician' to Queen Elizabeth, seen here in his "temple of discovery and enlightenment".
Thorn, a close friend and associate of Robert Boyle and other like-minded 'academical' contemporaries, was at the time, the pioneer and world leader in Experimental Philosophy, and attributed to be the father of the Oxford based League of Esotery, forerunner of the renowned Royal Society.