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Franckfuvt in 1G19. It is entitled ^'Natunc Sanctuarium : quod est 

 riiysica Her met lea . . .■ methodo 2ye7-spicua et admirandorum 

 secretorum in Naturce ahysso latentmm jyhilosophica explicatione 

 decenter in U7idecim libris tractata.'" This work contains a discus- 

 sion on general physical ideas and principles from the standpoint 

 of the alchemical or hermetical philosophy then in vogue, and, 

 as is said on the title, deals with the hid secrets of nature rather 

 than of practical science and art. 



Works treating more strictly of natural phenomena and practi- 

 cal physics were compiled by Casper Schott, a Jesuit, and Professor 

 at Wiirzburg. Reference may be made to two of his works. 

 "Physica Cariosa, sive Mirahilia Naturai et Artis Libris xii. Com- 

 prehensa" printed at Wiirzburg in 1667, in 4to. This treatise is 

 chiefly on Natural Histoiy, and contains a great many drawings, 

 of which those depicting different monsters, both of animals and 

 human beings, show the greatest amount of ingenuity and origin- 

 ality on the part of the artist. The boy with the elephant's head, 

 jmer capite elephantino ; the monstrous cock, with hoggers, and 

 a tail like a cow, set apparently in a metal socket ; the infans cum 

 2)romuscule et capitihus animalium; the vitulomonachus, or bull- 

 calf monk; the eqmis cute lacerd, or horse with the slashed doul^let, 

 and numerous others, surpass anything in the way of development 

 devised by x'ecent naturalists. 



Ten years later, in 1677, there appeared at Bamberg, Schott's 

 " Magia Universcdis Naturce et Artis," in four volumes, 4to. This 

 is a treatise on old Natural Philosoi)hy, and of the arts thereon 

 depending, for instance, under acoustics the author describes 

 organ-building. This work is very copiously illustrated, and the 

 general excellence of the drawings of apparatus and experiments is 

 noticeable. The artist has been a much more matter of fact person 

 than the other. 



About the same time, but without place or date, there appeared 

 a volume in 4to, entitled " Joco-Seriorum. JVaturce Ceidurke 4." 

 It bears the name of Caramuelius as the author, but in all proba- 

 bility this is a pseudonym, and the real author was Scbott.* It 



* Some ascribe it to Athanasius Kirclier, but that may be because a tract 

 by him is added at the end. Internal evidence is in favour of Schott. 

 For example, on page 272, reference is made to " our cryptography in the 

 first book of part four of the Magia," aiid tliis reference corresponds with 

 the Bamberg edition, iv. p. 1. As to the date, the chronogram with which 

 the preface conchides wouhl seem to point to 1061. 



