To the Most Wise Man

ALEXANDER FABIAN

A native of the City of Angels original: "Angelopolitano," referring to the city of Puebla in modern Mexico in the New World,

a distinguished theologian, philosopher, and

mathematician, as well as the most generous

founder of the Congregation of Secular

Priests of CHRIST in the Kingdom of Mexico,

Athanasius Kircher wishes happiness.

ATHANASIUS KIRCHER

Of the Society of Jesus The Jesuit Order.

An ornamental woodcut initial letter C features a central letter surrounded by elaborate floral scrollwork and foliage within a double-lined square border. As I was considering, O most wise man, that wonderful marriage between iron and the magnet, soon to my mind