Historical and Critical Library of Rare Physical and Medical Books

alone, but have long since reached foreigners as well, and have caused great admiration for YOU among all. What wonder, then, when your FAMOUS NAME has long been known in both the Netherlands, England, France, Sweden, Russia, and Hungary, and even in the New World, that Italy also venerates and admires YOUR virtues, and publishes a public document of your evaluation as a happy and strenuous investigator of nature. For I pass over the present epistolary commerce with the most famous men of Italy, such as the most learned and most skilled expert in universal natural history, JOHANNES FRANCISCUS SEGUIER of Verona, and JOSEPH MONTI, the most celebrated Professor of Botany and Natural History of Bologna, and others, which you have been accustomed to enjoy for many years; just recently the Florentine Academy of Sciences published a public document of its piety and respect toward YOU. For this Society, instituted for the advancement of medical matter and all natural science, a truly fair judge of good virtues and a fruitful nurse of the most excellent talents, has acquired great fame for itself