CCCCvlii IJFK OF liACON. 



Copies were presented to the King, to whom it was 



following is a copy of the title page: &quot; Fr. Baconis de Vervlam Angliae 

 Cancellarii de Avgmentis Scientiarum Lib. ix. Amstelaedami, sumptibus 

 Joannnis llavesteinij. 1662.&quot; At the back of which, as in the edition of 

 1652, there is the address to the reader: &quot;Amice Lector. Hoc opus de 

 Augraentis Scientiarum, novo ejusdem autoris organo si prsemittatur, non 

 modo necessarium ei lucem praebet ; sed et partitiones continet Scientiarum 

 quae primam Instaurationis magnae partem constituunt quas idcirco auctor 

 in ip.so organi limine retractare noluit. Haec te scire volebam.&quot; 



7. In 1765 an edition in 8vo. was published at Venice. The following 

 is the title page : &quot; Francisci Baronis de Verulamio, Angliae Cancellarii de 

 Dignitate et Augmentis Scientiarum. Pars prima. Lugani, MDCCLXIII. 

 Expensis Gasparis Girardi, Bibliopolae Veneti.&quot; I have a copy. 



8. In 1779 an edition was published on the continent. The following 

 is the title page : &quot; Francisci Baconi Baronis de Verulamio de Dignitate 

 et Augmentis Scientiarum. Tomus i. Wirceburgi, apud. Jo. Jac. Stahel. 

 1779. 



9. In 1829 another edition was published on the continent, in two vols. 

 of which the following is the title page: &quot; Francisci Baconis de Dignitate 

 et Augraentis Scientiarnm. Libri rx. Ad fidem optimarum editionum 

 edidit vitamque auctoris adjecit Philippus Mayer, Philosophic Doctor et 

 Gymnasii Norimbergensis Collega. Nomnbergae, sumptibus lliegelii et 

 Wiessneri. MDCCCXXFX.&quot; 



Such are the different editions of which I have any knowledge. I under 

 stand that editions have been published in Germany, for which I have sent, 

 and hope to be able to procure. 



Is it not rather extraordinary thnt not an edition has been published in 

 either of the universities of England ? 



Translations. 



In the year 1640 a translation into English was published at Oxford, 

 with a portrait of the philosopher writing his Instauratio, and the following 

 inscriptions prefixed and subjoined : &quot; Tertius a Platone philosophise prin- 

 ceps. Quod feliciter vortat reip. literariae V. C. Fran, de Verulamio 

 philosoph. libertates assertor avdax, scientiaru reparator felix mundi mentisq. 

 magnus arbiter inclytis max. terrarum orbis Acad. Oxon. Contab. Q. hanc 

 suam Instavr. voto suscepto vivus decernebat obiit v. non. April, n. D. N. 

 Caroli I. Pp. Aug. CID loc xxvi&quot; Appended is another engraving of 

 two spheres, the one of the visible, the other of the intellectual world, and 

 supported by two fixed pillars, the one Oxford and the other Cambridge, 

 with a vessel sailing between them, with the following inscription : &quot; Of 



