60 NOVUM ORGANUM. 



orbis provincial, ne per anditmn sane ant fainain ali- 

 qiiani certain et constantem, nossent : iino et plnrima 

 cliniata et xonas in qnibns popnli inh niti spirant et 

 degnnt, tanqnani inhabitabiles ab illis pronuntiata sint: 

 ijninetiani peregrinationes Democriti, Platonis, Pytha- 

 (ronv : , non longinqna* profeeto, sod potins snbnrbana\ 

 ut magnum aliqnid celcbrarentur. Xostris anteni tein- 

 ])oril)iis. et novi &amp;lt;&amp;gt;rl&amp;gt;i-. partes coniplures, et veteris orl)is 

 extreina nndi(|iie innotcscunt ; et in inrinitnm experi- 

 nientoruni ciiinnlns excrevit. Qnare si ex nativitatis 

 ant genitnni teinpore (astrologorum more) signa ea- 

 pienda sint. nil inagni de istis pliilosophiis significari 

 videtur. 



LXXIII. 



Inter signa. nnllnm nia^is certnm ant nohile est, 

 fjnani (piod ex t rnctibns. rrnctns nim et opera in- 

 vcMita ])ro veritate philosophiaruni velnt sponsorcs et 

 fidejnssores snnt. At&amp;lt;jne ex pliilosophiis istis Gra&amp;gt;co- 

 rnm, et derivationibns earnm |&amp;gt;er particulares scientias, 

 jam per tot annornm spatia, vix nnnni cxperimentuiii 

 addnci potest, (piod ad hoininmn statnm levandinn et 

 jnvandnni sj)ectet, et philosophiir speculationibus ac 

 dogmatibus vere accej&amp;gt;tnm referri possit. Id(pio Ccl- 

 sns&quot; 1 ingenue ac prndenter latetnr ; niniirnni, experi- 

 menta mediciniP jirinio inventa fnisse, ac postca homi 

 nes circa ea jiliilosopliatos essc, et cansas indagasse et 



M The travels of Democritus extent) the Hippocratic method of 



reached over a great part of Asia, and observing and watching over the 



some state that he even reached operations of Nature, regulating ra- 



India and /Ethiopia. Those of Plato ther than opposing them. The an- 



extended only to Sicily, Egypt, and cient system of Medicine was an epi- 



Cyrene. Those of Pythagoras to tome of the Scholastic evils which in 



Egypt, Arabia, Phoenicia, Babylon, the middle ages afflicted all sciences ; 



and possibly India. so that even where experiment was 



r)1 Celsus, the Physician, probably necessary, men succeeded in render- 

 lived at the beginning of the Chris- ing it almost fruitless, 

 tian era. He followed (to a great 



