Frier Bacon, his discovery of the miracles of art, nature, and magic / Faithfully translated out of Dr. Dees own copy by T[homas] M[ay?] and never before in English.

  • Roger Bacon
Date:
1659
Catalogue details

Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Credit: Frier Bacon, his discovery of the miracles of art, nature, and magic / Faithfully translated out of Dr. Dees own copy by T[homas] M[ay?] and never before in English. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    38/77 (page 20)
    so Artificial Experi / | This deiigne may feem advantages 1 to ftrikc terrours into an Enemies Camp t or GarifoB, there being a multiplication I of appearances of Srarrcs, or men af- i fembled parpofefy to deftroy them : i Efpecially if the following deiigne be eon- I j joyned to the formerfv/^GlaiTcs focaft, , i that things at hand may appear at difiance i i and things at difiance,as bard at hand : yea fp farre may the deiigne be driven, as I thfc Jeaft letters may be read, and things i reckoned at an incredible difiance, yet i fiarres fliine in what place you plcafe. Away, as is verily believed, Cafar took by grear Glafles from the Coafts of France, to view the fite and difpoiition of ftoth the Cafiles and Sea- i Towns in great Britain. By the fra- h ming ©f Glaifes, bodies of the largcft ! f' bulk, may in appearance be contracted -i to a minute volumne, things little in themielves ihow great, while others tall and lofty appear low and creeping, j things creeping and low , high and ] mighty, things private and hidden to be i clear and manifcft. For as did < difcover a Dtagon , whofe peftiferous ! A breathings and influences corrupted both City and Countrey thereabouts, to have his