He traveled extensively to Germany, France, Italy, and England, where he met and socialized with heads of state and brilliant men. He learned the language of each country to communicate in their native tongue.
A son of a Bishop of the Lutheran church who believed that he was receiving messages from those who had passed beyond. A spiritual household filled with love and encouragement was his heritage.
Considered an excellent scholar and lover of nature he eventually became a scientific advisor to the King on the mineral properties of ores.
He designed canals and was Knighted for transporting ships overland by using a roller railway.
Considered a psychic, he accurately predicted the date and time of his death. At a dinner party, he described a fire in a city 300 miles away. The event occurred exactly as he described it.
Born in 1688, an engineer by trade, he proclaimed our galaxy was only one of island universes.
Who was this inventor, mystic, predictor, writer laughed at, taunted and called a dreamer?
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