Preserved information about some kind of mirror polished black crystal that once belonged to the legendary personality of the second half of XVI century - John Dee.
John Dee - a brilliant mathematician and astronomer, the great scientist, a connoisseur of classical philology and languages, zealous collector of ancient manuscripts and savior, the owner of one of Europe's largest private libraries, the eminent philosopher, "the ideological father of Rosicrucianism, the seer, the person who can sleep only two hours a day - this is an incomplete list of characteristics of this enigmatic personality. This is a magic mirror, in particular, told manuscripts, at one time stored in the library of Cotonou. Included a mirror in the collection of curiosities collected by Horace Walpole. It looked like it was a magnificent piece of coal black, perfectly polished, dressed in the form of an oval with a handle of dark ivory.
And while many said that it was just an angle greater confidence in it. Maybe it was, and some other mineral. In any case, in the collection of graphs Peterborough is the mirror was kept with careful inscription: "Black Stone, by which Dr. Dee summoned spirits." Elias Ashmolean by outlandish and sinister book "Chemical Theater, tells about a black mirror in glowing terms:" With the help of this magic stone can be seen every person they want, in whatever part of the world, it may be, even if it is hidden to in the most remote chambers or caves that are placed in the bowels of the earth.
It is known that in any sort of Peterborough, or in the old Walpole, fearing such a power, never even tried to use the magic mirror. We did not do it themselves and not let others, jealously guarding a relic from the eyes of strangers. Fear more trouble, which could cause someone's improper curiosity.
But it so happened that in 1842 a collection of Walpole was put on the light with a hammer. When the sale of crystal ball for twelve pounds (according to French sources - for 336 francs) bought a man who preferred to remain anonymous. Despite all the searching, nor the mysterious man, neither black mirror Dee found it was not possible.
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