DEDICATION.

the honor and ornament that they bear on their frontispieces, namely dedications to the names of other Celebrated Men, whether offered submissively (as if to entreat patronage) or in friendship (as if to testify to respect and affection). I was surely led by invincible reasons to come to You, Most Celebrated Sir (who, because of your rare virtues—namely, by reason of your exceptional eloquence and modesty, as well as your singular Learning and Experience: therefore, by one of the Princes of the Earth, you were deemed most worthy, not only to be called from your native soil to foreign lands for the sake of propagating and elucidating Medical Science, but also that the health and secrets of Princes should be entrusted to You). To You, I say, I have come here to consecrate, submissively and in friendship, this Physico-Mathematical Atrium of the Incomparable Johannes Alphonsus Borelli the Neapolitan: an Atrium, I say, because I deem it necessary for any curious person to enter it before the reader reaches the splendid...