Magnalia naturae: or, the philosophers-stone lately expos'd to publick sight and sale; being a true and exact account of the manner how Wenceslaus Seilerus the late famous projection-maker, at the Emperours court, at Vienna, came by, and made away with a very great quantity of pouder of projection, by projecting with it before the Emperor ... / By John Joachim Becher ... [by] Wenceslaus Seilerus ... Published at the request ... especially of Mr. Boyl [sic].

  • Becher, Johann Joachim, 1635-1682.
Date:
1680
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Credit: Magnalia naturae: or, the philosophers-stone lately expos'd to publick sight and sale; being a true and exact account of the manner how Wenceslaus Seilerus the late famous projection-maker, at the Emperours court, at Vienna, came by, and made away with a very great quantity of pouder of projection, by projecting with it before the Emperor ... / By John Joachim Becher ... [by] Wenceslaus Seilerus ... Published at the request ... especially of Mr. Boyl [sic]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Nothing was more grateful to Fr.VVenceftasss than to ■ hear this Condition, and having given him his hand that he would follow it: - ., . r The Count began thus, 'Tis cert urn (fa id he) That p» and 1 do both (land in need of the Emptrws Protection , and 'tis as certain, 7 hat we [hall be fond to deliver the TmBurc to him Mi Advice then is,, (which I refer to yon for your appro¬ bation andconjent.) 1 mil pretend,, that being in)oynd to make a firmer Examination of this Tinging Powder, that l have em¬ ployed it all, in order toils multiplication to try whether it might he augmented for the greater Benefit ana Aavantageof his Ma- jestf However, we may both be fheltred under ibe Continuance If tl'e Emperors ProteBm, and yet we may hep the TmBnrej^ And after the time deigned for its augmentation u eU?Jed' , mil eafily devife,feme colorable Excuff,, to evade it; as, AT bat A. GJ was broken, or fome Error comm,tied in the opera- tn For, the Truth is, (faid he) The Empemrs Court is not f worth fo great a Treafure ■, it will be Proftttuied there anj™A^ common. But to ingage thyjelf to me in a greater aegree of Faith- fulneli Thou mu ft not refufe to give me half the i inBure, ana we Lit tike a mutual Oath to be faithful one to the other asicng as we live, and for what now hath faffed between us it fall be burn¬ ed in perpetual oblivion. . The Emperor Jhall never know ar.y thing of it, neither (hall he ever have any of the Tmtture. Fr Wenciflaus was fain to make an Agreement on thof Terms which were drawn up in writing, fubfenbed with both their hands,and confirmed by their mutualOathsjajid fo the Tindture was divided betwixt them. Th made a Tryai by himfelf alone the next day, with fome ' ofhis proportion thereof, to try whether he had not been deceived therein: but he found it Right and good. Having Raid a while at his Country Houfe , he was about to return to Vienna, but he was taken fo g*»voufly firk of a fit of the Gout, that out of the intolerable Tor¬ ment which he felt, he drank tem Amnm Potabde, vvhiclx •