THE CONTEST OF WISDOM WITH FOLLY,

In which,

THE LYDIAN STONE, a reference to the "touchstone" used to test the purity of gold HAVING BEEN REJECTED

BY THE FALSE BUILDER, FR. MA-

RINO MERSENNO, MONK,

accurately examines the highly celebrated fabrications of his Babylonian Volume (on Genesis).

Being such a one, blinded in it by self-love, who prefers himself to most illustrious men and to the doctrine itself, which is far to be preferred.

Especially from the Christians

	Col.		Col.		Col.
Tho. Aquinas	1151	Agrippa	1177	Langius	1363
Albertus Magnus	1151	Campanella	1184	Illyricus	99
Pico della Mirandola	1706	Venetus	1135	Amama	365
Origen	49	Origano	995	Niphus	305
Damascenus	384	Firmicus	426	Drusius	1056
Abbot Trithemius	34	Archangelus	478	Rodericus	1562
Abbot Sigismund	142	Maginus	511	Camillus	1149
Bacon the Monk	971	Baptista Porta	511	Patritius
Ficino the Priest	31	Cajetan	1093	Galeotus	140
Calvin	1492	Kepler	1180	Tasnerus	1385
Luther	137	Schonerus	995	Gilbert	1744
Paracelsus	711	Fracastorius	940	Viscount Verulam Francis Bacon
Mizaldus	1152	Charron	671	Englishman	1838
Cardano	1154	Machiavelli	671	Carpentarius	1838
				Fludd	passim throughout
				Salinus
				with many others	1707

Pagans


Ptolemy	574	Porphyry	1152	Thales	1452
Hermes Trismegistus	66	Iamblichus	1452	Zoroaster	3
Artephius	1152	Aphrodisius	1152	Heraclitus
Plato	588	Thebit	1152	Orpheus	31
Josephus		Apponensis	1152	Aristotle	397
Apollonius of Tyana	426	Apuleius	1452	Pythagoras	589
Lucretius	1385	Macrobius	452	Averroes	460
				Empedocles	588
				with many others

Namely, in general


Lutherans	1838	Cabalists	1506	Chemists	711
Calvinists	1838	Brothers of the R.C. Rosy Cross	1452	Chiromancers	1743
Rabbis	1103	Astrologers	1000	Men	145
Jews	786	Geometers	122	in general

by falsely imposing the mark of atheism, or blasphemy, or heresy, or evil magic, or ignorance, or stupidity, he thought to acquire for himself the title of the highest and sole wise man in the world.

Author Robert Fludd; otherwise known as de Fluctibus, Esquire: and Doctor of Medicine

of Oxford: Who, because of the calumnies and insults cast upon him by the sycophant Mersenne,

is excited to this work, against the peaceful disposition of his nature.

Isa. 5. 20. 21.

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness: that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

ANNO 1629.