Introduction to the Divine Art of Chemistry

P R Æ F A T I O.

Furthermore, I have wanted this author to be a pledge of my devotion toward you, in that admirable building of yours, which will be, as it were, a theater and a certain treasury of the whole universe (about which the most famous man, Ludolphus Halnerus, jurisconsult and my singular friend, has often spoken to me). I pray again and again that you may receive this with a kind spirit and defend this most excellent art.