Reddit reviews Chemisches Cabinet derer großen Geheimnussen der Natur. (German Edition)

This is a tricky one, very complex sentence structure. I'll give it a try. It's actually from a book - "Michaelis Majeri - chemical cabinet of the big mysteries of nature:

https://www.amazon.de/Michaelis-Imperial-Consistor-Chymisches-Geheimnussen/dp/1175261424

The first page reads like an advertisement for the book.


"Michaelis Majeri, Imperial. Consistor. Comit

Chemical cabinet of the big mysteries of nature/ through well devised, ingenious copperplates
and
emblems,
as well as
for the enlightenment and mind/ attatched with very useful and skillful sensations and poetical headings/ represented and decorated.

After it was desired and requested by many different highly enlightened and artful enthusiasts because of its rare secrets within as well as its explanation of philosophical subtleties;

the
chemical republic (I guess that would have been some sort of scientific club)
and its enthusiasts/

drawn up for a second time in Latin for the speculation and examination, contemplation and well-meaning veneration and love/ now translated into standard German for the first time/

by

G.A.K., the enthusiasts of the philosophical arts

an application is added of the high song of Salomonis (and) for the universal tincture of the philosophorum.

Frankfurt

published by Georg Heinrich Dehrling/ anno 1708."


Phew. Those bracketed sentences are insane. If you think modern German is complicated because it splits up some verbs, try 18th century German.