Micrographia nova: sive nova & curiosa variorum minutorum corporum singularis cujusdam & noviter

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Archduke of Austria, Burgundy, Brabant, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, etc., Marquess of Moravia, Duke of Luxembourg, and of Upper and Lower Silesia, Württemberg and Teck, Prince of Swabia, Count of Habsburg.

A decorative drop cap 'I' features floral and foliate scrollwork. The impediments that have existed until now concerning the very unknown understanding of natural things drew their origins from the fact that the leaders of philosophy, the explorers of the abyss of physics, and the elite, failed to direct the true nature of the senses toward the truth—