Theater of Machines, Volume 4

I have had this printed at great expense.

Although I do not doubt that I will earn little thanks from some, particularly those expert in this art, for making such a highly laudable art common to everyone who has a desire for it through such translation, I nevertheless give them this answer: that this art is found described not only in Latin but also, as indicated above, in Italian and French. If such can be read, practiced, and put into effect by the common man who has been raised with such a language, why should it then be withheld from the common man in Germany, given that the Germans are, thank God, just as capable and able to understand and grasp such things as perhaps any other nation; indeed, they apply themselves more to the arts and...