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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    05] that he enquired into the occafion, whilft the Count was yet prefent, and undemanding that it arofe upon the fcore of a healed Desk: he demanded it of the Father who had it m keeping : which having received from him, the next morning he carried it with him to the Emperor, and com- p aincd grievouiiy againft the Count, as being the occafi¬ on of that nights Uproar: In the mean time, as foon as it was day, the noife hereof was fpread all over the City- and among the reft it reached the Ears of F. WenMaus who prefendy haftned to Court, and by means of the Emprefs’s Contelior obtaining Audience, he related to the Emperor -the who e Story how the Count had ufed him in H,Lan\ how he had extorted from him half the Tindure, how he was neceftjtated, by a forced Agreement, not to difeover any thing hereof whilft he was living, but was now free from the Obligation of his Oath by the Counts Death that he was very glad that the Tindure was at length come in- to the Hands of the right Owner his Imperial Majefty for whom he had long before defigned it; he did therefore now implore nothing more of his Imperial Majeftv but that he would afford him his Protection, againft the' Vio¬ lence of Count Peter Paar} his Poftmafter, and his Adhe¬ rents. - , „The Emperor perceiving the wonderful Senes of this co^S^eHtly entcrrd F- « tes Court, and committed him to the Care and Infpedion of Count Wdk- Jteiv, the imperial Governor of Hat [chirr. About this time, the Poft-mafter above-mentioned dyed pr‘°,- !!•. being thus received into the Emperours rotedion, had his Lodgings aftigned him by the Imperial Eowiing-Green, where he made fom@ Tryals before the Emperour and Count Aujitn of mBeffei* his Guardian, and the Fallace of the fokamuts in the Carinihian-ftreet he matte one ofi j Marks, as they fay, out of which Tranfinu- tations the Count Watte (icm made him a Gpld Chain to