Text.Penot.1594-01.K8v/Translation
From Theatrum Paracelsicum
On the nocturnal studies of Bernard [Penot], the most excellent philosopher and chemist.
The Table of Hermes, the divine progenitor of alchemists, once sealed, now disclosed only to the wise, encompasses: whatever among Geber, Bacon, or Trevisanus, Ripley, Lull, Trithemius, Artephius; what Arnaldus could explore with his art, bringing forth the hidden secrets of Nature, the goddess; and what Theophrastus marked with divine voice, the likes of which our era has not seen. This book, if you, reader, possess a keen mind to know, will provide all certainties.
Oswald Crollius of Wetterau.
