Theater of Machines, Volume 3

preached; but additionally, all good arts are being practiced, clarified, and brought to light far more magnificently than before. For, leaving aside Jurisprudence, Medicine, Eloquence, as well as all languages, and indeed the entire Philosophia Naturalis Natural Philosophy and moral philosophy, since these are plain for everyone to see, the art of various Machinis machines, pertaining to architecture both on land and in water, was previously found in barely one or two languages, scarcely among one or another author, and even then, very briefly, sparsely, and for the most part very obscurely. Now, however, it has been far more magnificently explained, augmented, and improved by many excellent Ingeniis minds/talents instructed by experience itself, so that today such artists are without doubt called Ingenieurs engineers due to the peculiar profundity required for this. Although I...