Preface

original: "ciunt frustra" God and Nature do nothing in vain.

Ah, how much more has God the Almighty graciously bestowed upon the human race—which was made entirely in His image and created with a rational brain to contemplate such things—so that it may explore many secrets of Nature? Thus, one can at times perform wonderful feats beyond expectation, and even great, inexpressible wonders.

One need only take the static experiments original: "Statica experimenta"; the study of weights and balances in hand; there one will find many strange armaments and instruments with which one can accomplish great, seemingly impossible things beyond all expectation, just as Archimedes