An ornamental woodcut headpiece featuring symmetrical floral and foliate scrollwork.

MOST SERENE

HIGHNESS:

A decorative woodcut drop cap letter 'B' entwined with vine and leaf motifs.

A most beautiful thing
to observe
are the various
and strange antipathies antipathies: the natural repulsion or "dislike" between certain substances or forces in early modern science
which are universally
discerned in bodies both simple
and composite (once separated
from chaos). There is
certainly nothing
in the world exempt from its
contrary, and in such a
way so antipathetic that it
seems impossible to unite
it with another; and yet the