Key to the Things Hidden from the Foundation of the World

most studious and loving. Whence, before others, he obtained from GOD through NATURE that task and honor, so that, because of long travels and affairs conducted everywhere piously and learnedly, he was a professor of XII languages, being ignorant of few; and besides, a citizen of Jerusalem, Alexandria, Constantinople, Rome, and Paris (where he was born and died); he deserved to reach, if not to complete in living, the age of CXXX 130 years, as attested by Helisaeus Roeselin in his work on the Arctic expedition and the new star, ch. 7, p. 43, by dying happily in the month of September, 1581. What he achieved by traveling, learning, writing, and teaching through so many cycles of life, the previous century will teach more fully, together with his books mentioned in our Appendix. But the present little book of the same Author (the KEY to things hidden from the foundation of the world) before