To the Most Wise Man,

ALEXANDER FABIANUS

A native of the New World, Angelopolitan, distinguished Theologian, Philosopher, and Mathematician, and likewise the most munificent founder of the Congregation of Secular Priests of Christ in the Mexican Kingdom, wishing happiness.

Athanasius Kircher of the Society of Jesus.

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As I consider, O most wise man, that admirable marriage between iron and the magnet, that play of Claudian, crowded with swelling wit, immediately occurs to my mind.