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].

  • Johann Joachim Becher
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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    ; [6] iy defire die remaining Portion of the Gold, which he id referved but buffered fryer mncefl^ tomjoythe Ducats, yet’ with this Advice, That he {hould difcover it to none in the Monailery. , , M But Fryer mtceflaw, though he had not been Ma Per of fo much Money a long time, was not fatisfied therewith but entertained various thoughts in his mi , whether he fliould by Flight free himfclf from t »at Bon¬ dage and Slavery he was m , whileft he had the Advan¬ tage of fo much Cafli ? Or elfe, whether he fliould fay fo^ong there, till either by Flattery or Cra^’hehSf the Copper Boxes from the old Father. To the foil oi theft: Cogitations he was edg’d on by the eagernefs that Defire he had to leave the Monailery : But then, the great Heap of Gold which he might make with th Powder as he well conje&ured, if he could get it into hishands did fomewhat abate his Fervor, andperfwade him <o flay. For, though ho was ye. a!to|the, of Chymiitry, yet the precedent Trya»s had give rn mUch Lieht That he was folly perfwaded,The Box con- SS and was' worth a vaft Treifute, and though a. that lime the Rarenefs of the Powder, and the mu tiphcaa- on of it had very fmall Influence upon his Thoughts : yet becaufe he had a iliare in finding ot it out by means of his Ball, he therefore thought that half of it at leaft dld But* there was another thing which more perplex¬ ed his mind, and that was the Fear, That the old at ter, eirber out of a-Principle of Devotion, or ofTain-Glory, fliould difcover the whole ftory of the Bufinefs to the Abbot and by that means fliould make away all the Pouder : and he was rather inclined to thefe Cogitations, becaufe be had obferved. That the Father, who before had been more remifs in hiding the Box, now of late was ftrfolicitous to preferve it, that he kept it contmua ym