Note AF — MICHAEL SENDIVOGIUS.
Reading edition
See Desnoyer’s Letter in Langlet du Fresnoy’s Histoire de la Philosophie Hermétique. Borel, in his Gallic Antiquities, recounts that he, with many others at Paris, saw this crown-piece. He describes it as partly gold, so far only as it was steeped in the elixir. The gold part was porous, being specifically more compact than in its silver state. There was no appearance of soldering, or of the possibility of deception.