TESTIMONIALS

Paulus Zacchias, Roman Physician.

Athanasius Kircher, of the Society of JESUS, a writer of the most eminent reputation, has long since enticed all learned men into admiration of himself through his most ingenious literary labors. In his treatise on the Plague, however, which I have read with the greatest delight, he has surpassed all admiration: for while he lays his hand upon another’s harvest, he handles it so learnedly and so prudently that he has snatched the palm from all those to whom that harvest properly belongs. For, insinuating himself into the most hidden penetralia of Nature, he has attained not to vulgar causes of things, nor those fetched from the street corner, but to such as are more abstruse, inscrutable to others, and true, that he offers them to us to be grasped by the senses themselves. What wonder, then, if he has hit every mark in proposing remedies against this most truculent pestilence, having attained to its causes. Let the book, therefore, now come forth into the light, which uncovers the light of truth long buried in darkness, so that it may be of such benefit to the most miserable of men.