Description of the Most Principal Mineral Ores

...? might ...? therefore
...? and knower of nature, who
...? notwithstanding that the same
...? God’s, and His truth
...? of the Almighty, with diligence
...? properties of the same, the
...? revealed, and thereby not
...? which books as those in
...? love, subsequently through others
...? in our time through many learned [men], with
...? and useful things, [have] been
...?ed &c. To all of whom I
...? natural art, for such their
...? should give thanks.

...? among such Scribenten writers there have been some
...? metals, ores, and minera-
...? about their properties, type, and under-
...? published books, yet there are
...? few found who have written anything thorough
in German, how one [could bring] the metals
...? and belonging pieces on the right foundation, in the most
...? and easiest way, bring upon the ore,
smelt, and usefully work, which is
most necessary to know, especially in
work and in those places where one deals and has to do with ore and
alchemical arts,
in that the mentioned Scribenten writers sat only ad Theoricam in theory
and did not experience, practice, or
use these things in the work themselves, but rather gathered their idle works from others
whom they believed too much, [and] gathered together on mere reports
[so that] a beginning Berckman miner/metallurgist, or those who in
work, and otherwise in other ways of these things
might be, not only can learn or gain nothing fruitful therefrom,
but rather become much more [confused] thereby.