the South-Sea: 



cc, fome-of a certain Tin&ure, converted 1604 times as 

 much Mercury into Gold, which went through ail Tryalsy 

 €C Joan. Kunkeli Obftrvationes^ Lond. 



" p Zweifer y in his Book entitled. Pharmacopoeia Regia r 

 tc Parti. Cap. 1. fays, that the Emperor Ferdinand III. 

 " having with his own Hands made two Pounds and a 

 cc half of good Gold of three Pounds of ordinary Mercury, 

 <c by Means of a certain Philofophical Tin&ure, cams' d a 

 cc Medal to be made of it ; on the one Side of which was 

 " an Apollo, with an Infcription certifying that Tranfmu- 

 cc tationj and on the Reverfe he prais'd God, for having 

 <c communicated to Men fome Part of his Divine Know- 

 <c ledge, which may be better feen in the Original Latin 

 cc Words, which I have here inferted. 



Abort the Apollo. 

 DIV1NA METAMORPHOSIS, 



Then follow d, 

 EXIBITA PRAG£ 

 XV JAN. A~0 MDCXLVIII. 

 IN P R i£SENTIA 

 SAC CMS. MAIESTAT 

 FERDIN ANDI 

 TERTII 



On the Reverfe. 



R ARTS 

 HiC VT 

 HOM1NIBVS NOTA 

 EST ARS ITA RARO IN 

 LVCEM PRODIT 

 LAVDETVR DEVS 

 IN 1TERNVM 

 QVI PARTEM INFINITE 

 SYE SCIENTI./E ABIEC 

 TISSIMIS SVIS C REATV 

 RIS COMMVNI 

 CAT 



cc In Englijh thus : The Divine Metamorphofis,or Tranf- 

 <e mutation, performed at Prague, on the 15 th of Janu- 

 <c ar% in the Year 1648, in : the Prefence of the facred Im- 

 cc perial Majefty of Ferdinand III. Then on the Reverfe: 

 £C As this Art is known to few Men, fo it feldom appears 

 cc abroad. God be prais'd for ever, who has communis 

 " cated Part of his Divine Knowledge to his mod abje£t 

 " Creatures. 



<c The fame Zweifer takes care to obferve that the faid 

 <c Gold was very good, not at all Sophi flic al, and that the. 

 " Emperor was too fharp a Man to fuffer himfelf to be im- 



pofeel 



