LORD JOACHIM

FROM THE HIGHLY NOBLE FAMILY OF THE FREE

BARONS OF THE EMPIRE

OF GRAVENEGG,

OF THE CHURCH OF FULDA

ABBOT,

Prince of the Holy Roman Empire,

Arch-Chancellor to the August Empress, and throughout

Germany and Gaul

PRIMATE,

My Most Clement Lord.

I come where my duty and my most devoted will lead me; to You, I say, MOST ILLUSTRIOUS PRINCE, I offer the Heavens; Not those which the man of Syracuse original: "Syracusius"; referring to the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes once fabricated from glass—