Kommentar: This treatise originally set out to explore the causes and effects of melancholy, but it eventually covered many areas in the life of man. First printed in 1621. From Pullman’s introduction: “This book is very long. What’s more, like the book Alice’s sister was reading on that famous summer afternoon, it has no pictures or conversation in it. To add to the drawbacks, parts of it are in Latin. And finally, as if that wasn’t bad enough, it is founded on totally outdated notions of anatomy, physiology, psychology, cosmology, and just about every other –logy there ever was.”