Dedication.

Since, however, the aforementioned sophists mostly think to begin and complete their work with Antimonio antimony and Mercurio mercury according to the writings of the Philosophorum philosophers, I have been moved—firstly to the honor of GOD, to the benefit of my neighbor and lovers of Alchimæ alchemy, and for the sake of the love of truth—to promote for publication this my Chymische Untersuchung von Unterscheid chemical investigation of the difference between Antimonii Philosophorum & vulgaris philosophical and common antimony, as well as Mercurii Philosophorum & vulgaris philosophical and common mercury, which I have—according to the harm-