Lumen de lumine: or a new magicall light discovered, and communicated to the world / By Eugenius Philalethes [pseud].

  • Thomas Vaughan
Date:
1651
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Credit: Lumen de lumine: or a new magicall light discovered, and communicated to the world / By Eugenius Philalethes [pseud]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    or to her DcBtine. Under this Jhade and screen did lodge a number of Night in gals,, which I difcovered by their whitsjb Breafit, Thefc peeping thorough their leavie Cabinets , re. joyced at this ftrange Light, and having firft plum'd them selves, ftirr’d the ftill *4yr<? with their Maficjg. This I thought was very pret¬ ty, for the jilebpe of the Night, faking with the foUmie of the place, made me judge it heavenly. The Ground both neer and far of, prefented a pleating kind of Qaecquer, for this new fiar meeting with fame drops of Dm, made a cJlfdtitude of bright Re fractions, as if the Earth had been paved with Diamonds, Theie rare, and various Accidents kept my foul bufied, but to interrupt my Thoughts, as if it had been unlawfull to examine vyhat I hadfeen, another more admirable Objclt in¬ terpos’d. I could lee between me and the Light, a moft exquifit, divine Beauty, Her frame neither long, nor (h wt, but a meane de¬ cent Stature. Attir’d fhe was in thin loofe iik/ybiK fogreen, that I never faw the Mft or the Colour was not Sarthly. In fame ph* ces it Was fanfied with white and Silver, Rd>*\j hands, which look’d like L Hies in a field of Grajfe. Her head was overcaft with a thin | floating Ttjfanie, which fhe held up with ont ©f her hands, and look’d as it were from MWef %