Instruction on Natural Magic and its Medical Use

if he wishes to perform something worthy of wonder.

I cannot sufficiently marvel at our ancestors, who performed such great things by means of this Magiæ magic that their descendants could hardly dare look at them. Archimedes and Laurentius Florentinus made celestial globes that moved of their own accord. (f) Drebbel made a glass globum globe or sphere in which the entire work of creation appeared. (g) Who does not know of the wooden flying dove

(f) In which, as a poet sang:

The enclosed spirit governs all the stars,
And drives motion into a fully living work:
The false zodiac runs from afar through the year,
So that one also notices the Cynthia the moon monthly.
Thus bold industry has its beginning with joy,
When it contemplates the world, which revolves without cease
Like a sphere according to human senses,
And the stars run in undisturbed measure.

(g) In this sphere, if one has poured in a very pure and bright juice or liquorem liquid and added a few drops of a wonderful oil, there first appears a mixed clump, then, as the parts gradually separated from each