THE CONTEST OF WISDOM WITH FOLLY,

In which,

THE TOUCHSTONE original: "Lapis Lydius" REJECTED BY THE FAL-

SE BUILDER, BROTHER MA-

RIN MERSENNE, A MONK,

accurately examines the fictions of his most celebrated Babylonian Volume (on Genesis).

Namely; he who in that work, blinded by self-love original: "Philautia", [acted] against most illustrious men and those far to be preferred in learning. Specifically among Christians:

Name	Col.	Name	Col.	Name	Col.
Thomas Aquinas	1151	Agrippa	1177	Lang	1363
Albert the Great	1151	Campanella	1184	Illyricus	99
Pico della Mirandola	1706	Venetus	1135	Amama	1365
Origen	49	Origanus	995	Niphus	305
John of Damascus	384	Firmicus	426	Drusius	1056
Abbot Trithemius	34	Archangelus	478	Rodericus	1562
Abbot Sigismund	142	Magini	511	Camillus	1149
Roger Bacon, Monk	971	Giambattista della Porta	511	Patrizi
Ficino, Priest	31	Cajetan	1093	Galeotto	140
Calvin	1492	Kepler	1180	Tasner	1385
Luther	137	Schöner	995	Gilbert	1744
Paracelsus	711	Fracastoro	940	Viscount Verulam Francis Bacon
Mizaldus	1152	Charron	671	The Englishman	1838
Cardano	1154	Machiavelli	671	Carpentarius	1838
				Fludd	throughout.
				Salinus	1707
		(with many others.)

Pagans original: "Ethnicis"


Ptolemy	574	Porphyry	1152	Thales	1452
Hermes Trismegistus	66	Iamblichus	1452	Zoroaster	3
Artephius	1152	Alexander of Aphrodisias	1152	Heraclitus
Plato	588	Thabit	1152	Orpheus	31
Josephus		Peter of Abano	1152	Aristotle	397
Apollonius of Tyana	426	Apuleius	1452	Pythagoras	589
Lucretio	1385	Macrobius	1452	Averroes	460
				Empedocles	588
				with many others.

In General, namely


Lutherans	1838	Kabbalists	1506	Alchemists original: "Chymicis"	711
Calvinists	1838	Brothers of the R. C. The Rosicrucians	1452	Palm readers chiromancy	1743
Rabbis	1103	Astrologers	1000	Men	145
Jews	786	Geometricians	122	in general.

by falsely applying the mark of either Atheism, Blasphemy, Heresy, Evil Magic cacomagia, Ignorance, or Stupidity, he thought he would acquire for himself alone the title of the only Wise Man in the whole world.

Written by Robert Fludd; otherwise known as "de Fluctibus," Esquire and Doctor of Medicine of Oxford: Who, incited to this work by the slanders and insults cast upon him by the sycophant Mersenne, acts against the peaceful disposition of his own nature.

Isaiah 5: 20. 21.

Woe to you who call evil good, and good evil: putting darkness for light, and light for darkness: putting bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter. Woe to you who are wise in your own eyes, and prudent in your own sight.

IN THE YEAR 1629.