The Sendivogian Chemical Tripod

Preface.

For just as GOD the Almighty
did not want to create only one star,
one bird, one fish, one animal,
one herb, and one mineral, but
rather of every kind many thousands
of types—indeed, innumerable, incomprehensible,
and unfathomably manifold—so He
has much less wanted to have humans
be of only one kind and skilled in only
one business; rather, it is His order,
will, and command, that one in one thing,
another in another, practices his
delight, knowledge, and art original: "kunſt." In this period, "art" referred to any specialized skill, craft, or branch of knowledge requiring study and practice.. Therefore,
one builds above the Earth into the heights
above himself—high houses, towers,
and pyramids, like the storks;
the other burrows in the Earth,
in the ground and soil with planting,
sowing, and setting of trees, fields,
and pleasure gardens original: "Luſtgärtẽ." These were ornamental gardens designed for enjoyment and the display of exotic plants, often featuring symbolic or philosophical layouts., like the moles;
the third builds under the Earth,
toward the abyss or (in mining jargon original: "Berg-welſch." Literally "mountain-foreign," this refers to the specialized technical language or cant used by miners which was often unintelligible to outsiders.)
the Eternal Deep original: "Ewigen tieffe." A poetic and technical term for the profound depths of a mine where the most valuable ores were believed to mature., into the
bottomless mines, like a wren original: "Königlin," literally "little king," the common German name for the wren. Used here as a metaphor for a small creature that nonetheless navigates complex or hidden spaces..
Thus one practices subtle arts,
the other hard manual labor:
one sustains himself in the earth,
the other in the water, the third in the fire,
yet all in the air; This is an allusion to the four classical elements—Earth, Water, Fire, and Air—suggesting that while humans may labor in different elemental domains, they all share a common vital medium. for thus it must faint, illegible handwritten notes?

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