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Cardanus: ‘We had almost forgot Yeronimus Cardanus, that famous 
physician of Milan, a great enquirer of truth, but too greedy a receiver 
of it. He hath left many excellent discourses, Medical, Natural, and 
Astrological ; the most suspicious are those two he wrote by admonition 
in a dream, that is, De subtilitate et varietate rerum.’ Ibid. p. 36. [14] 
Albertus: * Albertus Bishop of Ratisbone; for his great learning and 
latitude of knowledge ‘sirnamed Magnus. Besides Divinity, he hath 
written many Tracts in Philosophy; what we are chiefly to receive with 
caution, are his natural tractates, more especially those of Minerals, 
Vegetables and animals, which are indeed chiefly Collections out of 
Aristotle, Hilian, and Pliny, and respectively contain many of our popular 
Errors.’ Ibid. p. 35. [22] side: The edd. of 1605, 1629, 1633, read 
‘sake.’ The book De Mirabilibus Auscultationibus, to which Bacon 
refers, is not Aristotle's. See p. 87. [26] * was’ for ‘were.’ See p. 34, * 
1. 25, note. 
ee 36. (1] Lat. gue plus habent ex phantasia et fide quam ex ratione et 
ibus, [12] the derivations and prosecutions to these ends: 
That is, the subsidiary channels leading to these ends and the modes in 
which they have been followed. The Latin has, vie atque rationes que 
ducere putantur ad hos fines, [19] Esop, Fab. 33; comp. Novy. Org. i. 
85. [32] consuls: counsels in ed. 1605, corrected to consulls in Errata. 
Mr. Spedding conjectured that Bacon probably wrote counsell”*, and his 
‘conjecture is adopted by Mr. Kitchin. The Latin has, dictatoria guadam 
potestate munivit ut edicant, non senatoria ut consulant, which again looks 
as if the translator had the uncorrected copy before him, 
P. 37. [2-20] For hence... Aristotle: The original form of this 
passage is seen in the book Of the Interpretation of Nature (Works, iii. 
226, 227). [3] deviser: ‘device’ (Interpretation of Nature). [6] 
artillery, sailing, printing : ‘ painting, artillery, sailing’ (Interpretation of 
Nature). [16-20] For as .,. . Aristotle: ‘For knowledge is like a water 
‘that will never rise again higher than the level from which it fell; and 
‘therefore to go beyond Aristotle by the light of Aristotle is to think that 
a borrowed light can increase the original light from which it is taken’ 
(Interpretation of Nature). [21] Aristot. Soph. El.i. 2. [28-go] Lat. 
ut authori authorum et veritatis parenti, Tempori, non derogetur. [32] 
-peccant humours: Lat. vitiosi humores. 
P. 38. [6] Alluding to the old fable of Kronos. [11] Jer. vi. 16; 
quoted again in Ess. xxiv. p. 100. [16] Comp. Nov. Org. i. 84: Mundt 
enim senium et grandevitas pro antiquitate vere habenda sunt; que 
temporibus nostris tribui debent, non juniori e@tati mundi, qualis apud 
antiquos fuit. Illa enim e@tas, respectu nostri antigua et major, respectu 
mundi ipsius nova et minor fuit. The observation is quoted by Fuller in 
this chapter on The true Church Antiquary (Holy State, ii. 6). [25] 
Not Lucian but Seneca.. See Lactantius, De Falsa Religione, i. 16. 
