TO THE READER.

[ye]ars original: "annis." Completing the phrase "more than twenty years" from the previous page. more than twenty, it at last emerges victorious, soon to show to your eyes and your touch that which you seek so anxiously and with such great difficulty. Finally, this is the Harmony and consensus of all the Philosophers, which was indeed undertaken by many, but perfected and completed by no one. Without any waste of money, without instructions or the formulas of recipes, and with little labor and few expenses, it offers to you of its own accord that which neither the riches of Croesus Croesus was the King of Lydia in the 6th century BCE, legendary for his vast wealth., however immense, nor all the common recipes of the Charlatans Agyrtarum: from the Greek 'agyrtes', meaning a wandering quack or beggar; here referring to fraudulent alchemists who sold fake formulas. [could provide]...