Simonides Redivivus, or the Art of Memory and Oblivion

and can be the cause of undertaking many Spagyric alchemical/medicinal chemical works at one and the same, and at any, time without great inconvenience.

I hope that this account of the furnaces, especially the latter one, will not be ungrateful to Your Highness, as being most suitable for chemical exercises, which it appears both from many other things that Your Highness is vehemently led and delighted by; and also from the public hall of Spagyric works, lately built by Your Highness at Marburg, not without great expense, for the sake of the students of purer philosophy and medicine; and from the new profession of Chymiatria iatrochemistry/medical chemistry, to which, without doubt, you have long since noted with your eyes, and have now designated the most illustrious man, Mr. Johannes Hartmann, Doctor of Medicine, and a most skillful investigator of natural things, even those most abstruse. You, most powerful Prince, are the first to call chemistry, which was exiled and almost expelled from all Academies, into your own, and you assign it a most honorable place. Because you are the most learned of all Princes, therefore you are also the most insightful in filling the deficiency of the Universities, and in aiding the commonwealth, of which the entire foundation is the right education and instruction of youth; you are the most prudent and the most liberal. You have removed the ignominy with which the Chymico-mastiges scourges of chemistry previously tried to deform that most noble art, and to stir up envy against its cultivators among illustrious and good men; crying out that it was exterminated and driven from the Academies, and therefore should be condemned with the crime of futility, impiety, and wickedness; in a way not unlike that by which the Jews once strove to render the doctrine of our Savior, Christ, suspicious to the people, because the princes of the Pharisees and the Synagogue did not embrace it.

Therefore, use, O Candidates of true Medicine, this munificence of Maurice, the great Prince: acknowledge the favor of Hartmann, the highly industrious Professor of Chymiatria, who