Alchemy

For as the most eloquent Muse of Martial
Eloquently sings in verse,
“It is a disgrace to have difficult trifles,
And the labor of absurdities is vain.”
A most brilliant light shines upon the diligent reader
In your writings, my Libavius.
The monuments of the other Spagyrists
Possess nothing but opaque darkness.
Therefore, by your own right, for me even as one,
You alone are worth all of them, Libavius.

AUTHORS WHOM I HAVE

followed in this work.

Adamus Lonicerus.
Adamus Keckius.
Aegidius de Vadis.
Alanus.
Albertus Magnus.
Alexius Pedemontanus.
Andreas Baccius.
Andreas Marinus.
Andreas Matthiòlus.
Aristoteles.
Arnoldus Villanovanus.
Arrogosius: a Frenchman.
Avicenna.

Bernhardus, Count.
Bernhardus G. Penottus.
Bulcasis.

Conradus Gesnerus.

Democritus.
Dioscorides.

Diodorus Euchyon.
Donzellinus.
Dornaeus.

Author of Euonymus.
Eualdus Vogelius.

Fachsius, the Assayer.
Fernelius.

Gabriele Falloppio.
Galenus.
Garzias ab Horto.
Geberus.
Georgius Agricola.
Georgius Werner.
Gualther Ryffius.

Hermes.
Hieronymus Mercurialis.
Hieronymus Cardanus.
Hieronymus Brunsvicensis.