Mercury

Dear friends: I am sending you on this occasion the present engraving that appears on the frontispiece of the book Vorboten der am philosophischen himmel hervorbrechenden Morgen-Röthe, ‘The Herald of Dawn that Breaks into the Philosophical Sky', written by Johan de Monte Raphaim ─probably a pseudonym─, and published in 1716 in Hamburg, Germany. I am including two versions of the drawing: the first original of the book and the second a more popular version of a later edition. …