DEDICATION.

as for the frequency and assembly of learned men. They spend no small sums on this very thing. Is your [Republic] alien to this institution? Nay, the numerous body of men among you, most learned in every kind of sacred philosophy, is a testimony that it vies with most others. Therefore, I offer this labor of mine to your gravity and dignity with so much the more confidence, as this is more certain to me. Farewell, noble and consulted Men, and in your most happy government, may you forever possess a most flourishing Republic. The day before the Kalends of August in the year 1595. At Rothenburg on the Tauber.