Chemical Letters to Excellent Philosophers and Physicians in Germany

men. If you are grateful, you will be able to be informed, but restricted by the laws of the art. Many have labored in distillation. John Baptista Porta is quite diligent, as is Hieronymus Rubeus. Paræus and Matthiolus supply something, along with a great abundance of recent authors. Among the ancients is Geber, and others to whom, on account of the memory of Paracelsus, I add Lullius on the quintessence, Vlstadius, Albertus, and his contemporaries. In various parts of the art, the industry of Gesner, Crato, Zvinger, Guinther, Euchiontes, Geber, etc., stands out, to which can be added the one who recently wrote, Penetus, and, if by chance you also desire other Paracelsians, Dornæus, Turneisser, and the like, although you will hardly draw light from darkness. If you seek practice, approach those great Republics: Nuremberg, Brunswick, Augsburg, and others. There is a refuge of great hope in the Ranzovian family and the castle of Uraniborg. Other cities and principalities also have excellent exercises, from which the use of the art can come. I will be occupied in this, that I may collect what has been found and judged best by reason and experience, and reduce them to natural principles and those of the art, with the addition of Parachymic notes and scientific information. But if, in the meantime, there is anyone who can accomplish these things laudably, I would wish that he be asked to do so; I am so far from thinking anything has been snatched away, or from envying him. For that labor is also necessary.