CHEMICAL MATTERS

EPISTOLARY

FORM TO CERTAIN

PHILOSOPHERS AND PHYSICIANS

IN GERMANY

excellently described

First Book,

IN WHICH ARE CONTAINED

ingenious explanations of certain natural things; also

the pyronomic, scenastic, and vocabulary discipline of

CHEMISTRY, along with certain things held among the

secrets, are faithfully declared.

BY THE AUTHOR ANDREAS LIBAVIUS, M.D.

Poet and Physician of Rothenburg on the Tauber

ἐκ ἀπὸ θεοῦ καὶ φύσεως from God and nature.

Behold the vestibule of Chemistry.

A square woodcut printer's mark or emblem is displayed. At the center is a circular medallion depicting a human figure, likely a soul or Mercury, riding on the back of an eagle with wide-spread wings. The circular border contains the motto "IN DEO VIVIMUS ET MOVEMUR" In God we live and move. The medallion is enclosed in a highly decorative frame featuring Renaissance-style scrollwork, floral motifs, and masks. On the left side of the emblem is the number "15" and on the right is "95", forming the year 1595.

With the special privilege of His Imperial Majesty for ten years.

FRANKFURT,

Printed by Johannes Saur, at the expense

of Peter Kopf.