Theatrum naturae et artis

exhibit to us: Bohemian mountain crystal, Icelandic crystal, and whatever is crystal-like and endowed with diverse and elegant figures: specular stone, brought from various places: Bohemian hematite, etc.

(b) In Florentine marble, which by the variety of its colors exhibits partly cliffs, the ruins of precipitous towers and castles, and partly trees: In German marble, presenting either shrubs or entire forests so elegantly that they could hardly be painted more clearly by the hand of a painter: in Isleben stone, distinctly showing a fish with scales: in Ilmenau stone, in whose bosom a whole crab appears enclosed, and another, expressing the leaves of trees: in toad-stones a name given to fossils, formerly thought to be stones in a toad's head, both larger and smaller, in which there are two circles from which five lines proceed, divided by equal spaces among themselves: in the Ammon's horn ammonite fossil, one smooth and another tuberculated: in pyrite and another, from which an herb has sprung: in various conchites fossil shells: gray stone, which consists entirely of striated and smooth shells: and so forth.

(c) Which we observe in musk likely referring to a specific fossilized formation, showing the beginning, middle, and end of petrifaction in Thuringia. And to this refer other things from the Baumann cave a famous limestone cave in the Harz mountains converted into various figures; as well as a part of a stone beam or stone very similar to a trunk,