Chemical Letters to Excellent Philosophers and Physicians in Germany

They spend no small sums on this very thing. Is yours alien to that plan? On the contrary, that it competes with most is testified by the copious number of most learned men in every kind of sacred philosophy among you. Therefore, I offer this labor of mine to your gravity and dignity all the more confidently, by which that is more certain to me. Farewell, noble and wise men, and may you forever possess your most flourishing Republic with the happiest governance. The day before the Kalends of August, in the year 1595, at Rothenburg on the Tauber.