IN CAII PLINII

SECVNDI NATVRALIS HISTORIAE

COMMENTARY ON THE FIRST AND SECOND CHAPTERS OF THE THIRTIETH BOOK OF THE NATURAL HISTORY OF GAIUS PLINY

the most eloquent writer, containing a summary account of Natural Magic, full of mysteries, and a most profound contemplation of the most secret things, comprehending the nature, power, quality, substance, and virtue, and the knowledge of the whole of nature.

TO WHICH IS ADDED A DISCOURSE ON FASCINATIONS

An elegant and learned discussion, wonderfully useful and necessary for knowing the more secret effects of nature.

Also a letter of an uncertain author concerning Incantation, Conjuration, and the suspension of the neck, together with the apologetic letter etc. of JOHN TRITHEMIUS, ABBOT OF SPANHEIM, a most learned man and a most skillful investigator of the occult philosophy and magical arts, in his books of Steganography.

BY WHICH all the Plinian difficulties, especially those of a magical nature, are explained and resolved, extracted with singular diligence from certain authors and most ancient monuments.

For the sake of those studious of the reading of Pliny, now first written and published, by the care and diligence of D. G. H. R. M. & M. Walther Hermann Ryff, Physician and Mathematician. M. D. XLVIII. 1548.