312 NOTES. 



P. 1 74. [i] judgement : The Latin has here Seqnitur aliud Methodi &amp;lt;#s- 

 crimen, in tradendis scientiis cum judicio adhibendum. Method has been 

 described (p. 170) as a part of judgement, and here the one word 

 seems to have been substituted for the other. [5] agreeable : i. e. to 

 received opinions. Lat. opinioriibus jampridem imbibltis et receptis affinis. 

 [7] Arist. Eth. Nic. vi. 3. The opinion alluded to in this passage is 

 generally supposed to be that of Plato (Theset. p. 197) and not 

 Democritus. Mr. Ellis conjectured that Bacon might inadvertently have 

 substituted one name for the other. [10] need only but: One of these 

 words is redundant. We should say need only or need but. [22] 

 Mr. Ellis quotes Plato, Politic, ii. 277: x a ^ 67 &quot; W irapaSef-yjiewri \p&- 

 fjifvov, iKavuis (vSet/evvcrOai n rwv pci^ovow. [27] The Latin adds to 

 these diversities of methods Di&reticam and Homericam. 



P. 175. [8] Ramus (Dialect, lib. ii. c. 3) divides the axioms or first 

 principles of sciences (axiomata artium) as follows : Axioms are either 

 true or false. Of true axioms, some are true contingently, others 

 necessarily. A necessary axiom must be true in all cases, and the 

 predication is then said to be Kara TTOLVTOS. It must be homogeneous, 

 that is, its parts must be essentially connected together, as form with the 

 thing formed, the subject with its proper adjunct, genus with species : in 

 this case it is said to be naO avro. Thirdly, it must be catholic or 

 universal, that is, the converse of the proposition must be true as well as 

 the proposition itself, when it is KadoXov irpwrov. To these three rules 

 Ramus gives the fanciful names of the law of truth (KO.TCL itavros), the law 

 of justice (rcaO alro\ and the law of wisdom (itaOoXov irp&TOv ). It is the 

 last law which is referred to in the concluding sentence of this paragraph, 

 [u] the canker of epitomes: In p. 91 Bacon calls epitomes the 

 corruptions and moths of history.* [13] Referring probably to the 

 dragons which kept the garden of the Hesperides and the golden fleece. 

 Compare also Shakespeare, As You Like It, ii. i. 12-14 : 



Sweet are the uses of adversity, 

 Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, 

 Wears yet a precious jewel in his head. 



[26-28] and the longitude . . .precept: Lat. longitudo vero sumitur a 

 summa proposition ad imam in eadem scientia. [30] which is the rule they 

 call KaOavro : Omitted in the Latin. See note on p. 175, 1. 8. 



P- I 7 ( 5. [5] Ortelius: Abraham Ortel, or Ortelius, born June 9, 1527, 

 at Antwerp, and called the Ptolemy of his time. He was appointed 

 geographer to the King of Spain, and died June 26, 1598. Prefixed to 

 his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum is a map of the world called Typus Orbis 

 Terrarum, to which Bacon probably alludes. [20] Raymundus Lullius: 

 born at Palma in Majorca in 1235. He was at first steward to King 

 James of Majorca and High Chamberlain ; or.^s others say, a merchant 



