PHILOSOPHIC SCIENCES. 



Fig. 37. Count Vivien, Titular Abbot of St. Martin of Tours, dedicating to Charles the Bold 

 a Bible written in his Abbey. Charles is seated on his throne, surrounded by his nobles and 

 guards. The Abbot comes before him, escorted by ten priests, r'ght and left. Miniature from 

 "Charles the Bold's Bible," Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century. National Library, Paris. 



1000, and, amidst the cares of public life, finding time to cultivate the 

 sciences, a gifted dialectician, well versed in mathematics and physics, and 

 inventor of an hydraulic organ and clock. The learning and good fortune 



