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The Bookseller's

Warning to the Reader.

The Forerunner to the Wondrous World original: "Prodromus in Mundum Mirabilem", which is mentioned here, is the very same Kircherian Celestial Ecstatic Journey A famous work by Athanasius Kircher describing a fictional journey through the heavens, adorned and expanded with Introductions, Commentaries, and Diagrams by the Reverend Father Gaspar Schott. For the said Author referring to Schott is turning over in his mind a work of no small importance, which he will call the Wondrous World original: "Mundum Mirabilem"; in which, among other things, most of the matters handed down in this little work will be explained more extensively and established with more numerous arguments. I did not wish for this to remain hidden from you, Reader. Farewell.