424 ‘ON THE SCOPE AND INFLUENCE OF THE 
affirms, that his works contain the germs of many important 
discoveries in physics,the glory attached to which, though wholly 
reaped by others, was partly due to him*. His services to 
physics, are much more correctly indicated, by another well 
known German writer of that period, namely, Baron Purren- 
porr. “ It was the late Chancellor Bacon,” says he, “ who raised 
“ the standard, and urged on the march of discovery ; so that if 
“ any considerable improvements have been made in philoso- 
“ phy, in this age, there has been not a little owing to that 
“ oreat man f.” L oily 
Descending somewhat lower in point of time, though keep- 
ing still within the period of the supposed abeyance of Bacon’s 
fame on the Continent, we find Bupprus, a writer of un- 
questionable knowledge, representing him, as having comple- 
ted the overthrow of the authority of ArisrorLz, and as having 
not only described the true method, but powerfully accelera- 
ted the progress of scientific discovery }. I shall only add one 
authority 
* Mornort, Polyhistor. tom. ii. lib. 2. cap. 1.—Moruor gives the follow- 
ing notice of a work published in Hungary in 1663, in which an attempt 
was made to explain the principles of Bacon’s philosophy. Ex mente Vz- 
RULAMU queedam in sua universali methodo institiere voluit Jouannes Bayervs, 
libro cui titulus: Filum Labyrinthi, sive Lux mentium universalis, cognoscendis, ex- 
pendendis et communicandis universis rebus accensa. Verum obscurat potius Vz- 
RULAMIE sensus omnemque philosophiam, quam ut lumen aliquod accendat.”— 
Polyhist. tom. i. lib. 2. cap. 7. The title of Bavenr’s work is, partly, that of one 
Bacon’s philosophical fragments, (Filum Labyrinthi) ; and however imperfect 
his work may be as an exposition of Bacon’s views, it shows that his philosophi- 
cal writings had early engaged the attention of the learned, even in the more ob- 
scure parts of the Continent. ' 
+ Specimen. Controvers. Cap. i. sect. 5. apud Pore. Buount—Censura Celeb. 
Author, p. 635. 
‘+ Buppe1, Compendium Historia Philosophie p. 409, 410, Edit. 1731. 
