This scared some courtiers, but the king dismissed their cowardice and requested to repeat the figure three times. The king died a few days later.

After Walgensten died, his widow sold his lanterns to the , but they have not been preserved. Walgensten is credited with coining the term Laterna Magica, assuming he communicated this name to Claude Dechales who, in 1674, published about seeing the machine of the "erudite Dane" in 1665 in Lyon.

Possible German origins: Wiesel and Griendel

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