Chemical Library

nations countless men who have not heard that the books of the French exist, and countless in France who have not heard that the books of other nations exist, but by our Catalog all will become known to all, and with the index of their editions, they will be able to buy them from booksellers so that they may perfect their works exquisitely and omit nothing.

Ninth, it will be useful not only for Alchemy, but also for those curious about mineral matters and the secrets of authors.

Tenth, if anyone desires to create a body of Chemical authors, such as of the Egyptians, Hebrews, Arabs, Syrians, Chaldeans, Persians, Greeks, French, Germans, Swiss, Poles, English, Italians, Spaniards, etc., or of poets, women, etc., he will be able to easily glean the names of all from it. It will also be useful to those who, I hear, are planning to publish all the works of Lull simultaneously, nor will it be useless to those who decide to do the same for another philosopher.

But if someone should say, you bring nothing new, for these exist in other, more ample libraries of Gesner, Draudius, etc., I reply that hardly the twentieth part of my library is contained in them, and that I have gathered the names of authors with the greatest diligence from the best-equipped museums of the curious, who have existed up to the year 1653.