Dialexis de novae et prius incognitae stellae inusitatae magnitudinis & splendidissimi luminis apparitione, & de eiusdem stellae vero loco constituendo ...

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FROM THE LETTER OF HIERONYMUS MUNNOZIUS OF VALENCIA, public professor of the Hebrew language and Mathematics at the Valencian Academy, to Bartholomaeus Reisacher.

A decorative drop-cap letter E featuring intricate floral and foliate scrollwork.I BELIEVE Mr. Thaddaeus ab Hayck has decided to publish another more exact and copious commentary on the Star. I beseech you, therefore, that you greet him in my name, and encourage him not to desist from his undertaking, mindful of that sentence of Solomon: "Whatever you can do, do it insistently; because time and opportunity are lacking to those who descend to the dead." For his genius and sharpness—like a lion from its claws—is known to me. Nor do I less beseech you that he finish the work begun on parallaxes. For this seems to have been treated in some part by ancient mathematicians, but it has not been brought to the colophon finishing stroke/completion, as the saying goes.