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penda natiir^e artificia monftret ! fivc cercrnas & pcr 

 infinita fecula pcrennantcs in alpibus Ntves ; atquc 

 jntcr ipfos nivium tra£lus, promicantia identidem 

 prata ac virefcentia tempe ; iivc celfiffima Montimn 

 cacumina ; fivc confragola ^ abrupta rupium Pra- 

 cifitta; fivc ziikmntc'* Cataraudrtijn voragincs: fivc 

 latentem inrcgro tcmporis fpatio Fhcebiim ; & exo- 

 rientcm inde cimmcriam caliginem in orbc noftro, 

 confidercs j five moccjdimm alio anni tcmporc folis 

 jiibar fpe£tarc vclis j quorum vel in Batavo orbe, 

 vel in Gallia , velin Britannia,vcl in Gcrmania, vel 

 in alio deniquc Europaro tradu , ad quem avida 

 novitatis Juvcntus noftra turmatim erumperc folcat, 

 in fuo gcncre par, fimilcquc fruftra quxratur. 



Scd dehifccdicendilocusjam nonerat. Adeaqux 

 propofito meo funt propiora & propria dcfccndo, 

 excmplis odcnfurus j c]uod Fhyfia^ Mtmralogi^ Ba- 

 tanici , ZoQiogi , DiietctiCi , Pathologi , Medici praBict , 

 Occonorni^ & ceten harum fcienriarum myftx . in iti- 

 ncribus pcr noftras terras , ea funt inventuri , eadctc- 

 6buri, de quibus nc quidem per fomnium antea ip- 

 fis cogitatum fuiffe fatebuntur? immo qux tori or- 

 h\ in hunc diem plane incompcrta fuere j ea deni- 

 que quibus non tantum fciendi cupiditatem pafcant 

 ic cxfaticnt, fcd & patrije, fibique, & bono pu- 

 blico fcliciter infcrvire qucant. 



Habct , ut paucis & per cxcmpla agam , RE^ 

 RUM NAWRALIUM fagax INDAGATOR , 

 quo atrentionem fuam acuat & cxcrccat , contcm- 

 piando faftigia altiirimi & fupcr cethcra fcandcntis 

 Montis S-x-ucku; MiraUlera (Iruduram monusIorS' 



bttrg. 



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