Answer "Jacobean" describes the reign of King James I of England. Jacob is a variation of James.
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Robert Browne - Jacobean actor - was born in 1563.
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Galileo was the most famous Elizabethan/Jacobean scientist,
credited with inventing the telescope among other things. Galileo
was the most famous Elizabethan/Jacobean scientist, credited with
inventing the telescope among other things.
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Shakespeare lived in the reigns of two English monarchs,
Elizabeth I and James I, whose reigns are known as the Elizabethan
Age and the Jacobean Age respectively.