PREFACE 



TO THE 



PARTIS IN8TAUKATIONIS SECUNM DELINEATIO 

 ET AKGUMENTUM. 



AMONG the pieces collected by Gruter under the 

 title Impetus Philosophic^, the first is entitled Indicia 

 vera de Interpretations Naturce. It consists of the pref- 

 ace to the Novum Organum (Qui de naturd tanquam 

 de re exploratd <f ) which has already been printed 

 Vol. I. p. 233. ; the Partis secundce delineatio et Argu- 

 mentuir. ; and a small portion of the Redargutio Pliil- 

 osophiarum ; all three printed consecutively under the 

 same general heading, as if they had been found to- 

 gether in the original manuscript and formed one com- 

 position. The last (which has no separate heading, 

 but is printed as if it were a part of the Delineatio) 

 breaks off abruptly. But a manuscript discovered by 

 Robert Stephens among Lord Oxford's collections, and 

 now in the British Museum, 1 enables us to complete 

 it, and supplies the title. That it is the same writ- 

 ing there can be no doubt ; for the first three or four 

 pages of the manuscript are identical, or nearly so, 

 with the last three or four printed by Gruter, and the 

 whole fits perfectly into its place. 



1 Harl. MSS. 6855. 



