The Theater of Hydraulic Machines, Volume II

...they even applied their own hands to it, which encouraged countless scholars and art-lovers to pursue the matter with all seriousness, to continue it, and to bring into better standing that which the highest head of Christendom himself loved, promoted, and protected: For the grace and protection of high potentates is the best spur to set arts and sciences in motion.

All that was planted 900 years ago by Emperor Charles the First, and what the most highly praiseworthy Emperors from the Archducal House of Austria have helped to continue and promote for some 300 years so that it could bear fruit, all this has reached full maturity and utility under CHARLES VI, as Your Imperial and Royal Majesty. It is known to all the world that Your Imperial Majesty's most gracious high care and effort is directed toward how such arts and sciences might flourish to the desired benefit, not only of Your hereditary kingdoms but also of the entire Roman Empire of the German Nation, through the introduction and improvement of manufactures and commerce, and how, through arts and sciences, not only land and people are to be improved, but also how the art and the artists are to be helped and promoted; of which I, in my insignificance, seek to render a public testimony in all submissiveness.