Chemical Lexicon

gleaning original: spicilegium; literally a "gathering of ears of grain," a common term for an anthology or collection of excerpts. as I have made: I have inserted only the necessities; the superfluous, confused, and poorly assembled I have intentionally omitted, lest what I intended for a small bundle original: fasciculum. I should instead produce as a jumble original: farraginem; literally mixed fodder for cattle, used here to mean a messy or disorganized collection.. These small offerings of mine, to you as my most worthy Patrons, he The author uses the formal third person here. dedicates and consecrates.

August 12, in the year
of human salvation,
1651.