Two Treatises on the Nature of the Elements and the Fifth Essence

CORNELIS
DREBBEL
OF BELGIUM
TWO TREATISES.

I. ON THE NATURE
OF THE ELEMENTS (De Natura Elementorum).

II. ON THE FIFTH
ESSENCE (De Quinta Essentia).

To these is added a most worthy-to-be-read Epistle
concerning the invention of
PERPETUAL MOTION (Mobilis Perpetui).

Translated from the Belgian idiom into Latin
by DR. PETRUS LAUREMBERGIUS,
Professor at the Hamburg Athenaeum.

[A woodcut printer’s device featuring a hand emerging from a cloud, holding a pair of compasses over a decorative tablet. The tablet is inscribed with the maxim: WHAT YOU DO NOT WISH TO BE DONE TO YOU, DO NOT DO TO ANOTHER.]

GENEVA.
Printed by and at the expense of JEAN DE TOURNES.
1628.