PHILOSOPHICAL WRITINGS OF LORD BACON. 421 
There is'a letter’from Sir Tosy Marrurw to Bacon, which 
contains .a curious piece’ of information,’ not -hitherto  parti- 
cularly noticed, I believe, by any of the learned. It’ was 
written from Brussels in-1619, when Sir Toy was on his re- 
turn’ to Florence,’ where, during ’a former residence, he' had 
published an Italian translation of Bacon’s Essays. \ “ There 
“was with me'to-day,”’ says he, “ one Mr Riewarp Wut, 
“ who hath ‘spent ‘some time at Florence, and is now go- 
“ing to England. ‘He tells me, that Garitzo had answer- 
“ ed your discourseeoncerning the flux and reflux of the sea; 
“ and*was ‘sending it unto me; but that he hindered Ga- 
‘“ y180, because his’answer was founded upon a false sup- 
“ position’; “namely, that there was in the ocean a full sea but 
“ once’ in the twenty-four hours. But now,” adds Sir Tory, 
«JT will call upon Gaxineo ‘again *.”’ As the discourse on ‘the 
Tides, here alluded to, was not ‘published till several years af- 
ter Bacon’s death +, it must have been sent to Gatiiz0 in ma- 
nuscript. What farther’ eommunication took place upon. the 
subject, does not appear. | There is’ no allusion to any of Ba- 
con’s writings, so far as I know, in the works of GaLiLEo; 
though the circumstance just mentioned, and the unquestionable 
notoriety of these writings in Italy, during’ his time, render it 
difficult to believe, that he had not perused them. The fol+ 
lowing passage, contained in a letter written from thence to the 
Earl of Peseieed near, but before the time of Bacon’s death, 
athivasord wilqoaakiah we t “furnishes 
* Bacon’s Works, vol. iii. p. 562. 
+ It was first published, I believe, by Isaac Gruter in 1653, in the collec. 
tion entitled Fran. Baconr de Verulamio Scripta in Naturali et Universali Phi- 
losophia, 12mo, Amst, The pieces contained in this collection, were given: to 
Groter by Sir Wiut14m Boswext, the English Resident in Holland, to whom 
Bacon had committed them by his will. 
