Preface

nature: Therefore the excellent poet Virgil Publius Vergilius Maro (70–19 BC), the Roman poet. well and rightly writes: Happy is he who was able to know the causes of things: original: "Felicem eum esse qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas" – a famous line from Virgil's Georgics, Book 2, line 490. Indeed, man is born for this purpose / to explore nature / and thereby to recognize the Creator of the same. And whoever desires to know such secrets of all hidden things / he should be minded to seek to experience the same / nowhere else / than with God the LORD / who alone is the true teacher of all secrets: and it is not without reason that God the Almighty is a wondrous God / who places his inexpressible wisdom and power / before the eyes of men through manifold works / and his Divine