Drexelportrayed note-taking as the best kind of mine, one that would never fail to re-ward diligent work.3

eremiasDrexel (1581–1638), also a Jesuit (born in Augsburg) and a noted preacher whocomposed more than two dozen moral treatises, many of which were abundantlyreprinted. One of his last works, the Aurifodina, “The Mine of All Arts and Sci-ences, or the Habit of Excerpting,” was printed in 1638 (in 2,000 copies) andin another fourteen editions down to 1695 and spawned abridgments in Latin(1658), German (1684), and English.