Cosmologia Generalis

DEDICATION.

...piety commands that it come forth into the sight of YOUR MAJESTY and, as a suppliant, implore Your protection. For it is under Your auspices, MOST WISE KING, that what was most happily begun under the protection of Your Great Father must be continued. To render all philosophy both certain and useful to the Commonwealth and to the whole human race, this is what I am laboring to achieve. Therefore, after I set forth the method by which alone this can be done, I first had to seek the seeds from which those tall trees might joyfully grow—trees that would produce fruits so profitable to the Commonwealth and to the whole human race. The principles of solid doctrine, which are the seeds of truths, experience the same fate as seeds. For just as seeds have no resemblance whatsoever to the trees that grow from them, nor can the fruits to be expected from the tree be discerned in the seed; so, likewise, the principles of doctrine have no resemblance...