On the Philosophy of Discovery, Chapters Historical and Critical. William Whewell

80

One of the ingredients of a preparation here mentioned, is the flesh of a dragon, which it appears is used as food by the Ethiopians. The mode of preparing this food cannot fail to amuse the reader. "Where there are good flying dragons, by the art which they possess, they draw them out of their dens, and have bridles and saddles in readiness, and they ride upon them, and make them bound about in the air in a violent manner, that the hardness and toughness of the flesh may be reduced, as boars are hunted and bulls are baited before they are killed for eating." Op. Maj. p. 470.

81

Op. Maj. p. 473.

82

Quoted by Jebb, Pref. to Op. Maj.

83

Mosheim, Hist. iii. 161.

84

Op. Maj. p. 57.

85

Mosheim, iii. 161.

86

Gratian published the Decretals in the twelfth century; and the Canon and Civil Law became a regular study in the universities soon afterwards.

87

Tenneman, ix. 4.

88

Tenneman, ix. 25.

89

"Jam nobis manifestum est terram istam in veritate moveri," &c.—De Doctâ Ignorantiâ, lib. ii. c. xii.

90

De Doct. Ignor. lib. i. c. i.

91

De Conjecturis, lib. i. c. iii. iv.

92

Born in 1433.

93

Born 1529, died 1597.

94

Aristoteles Exotericus, p. 50.

95

Tiraboschi, t. vii. pt. ii. p. 411.

96

"Franciscus Patricius, novam veram integram de universis conditurus philosophiam, sequentia uti verissima prænuntiare est ausus. Prænunciata ordine persecutus, divinis oraculis, geometricis rationibus, clarissimisque experimentis comprobavit.

His other works are Panaugia, Pancosmia, Dissertations Peripateticæ.

97

Tiraboschi, t. vii. pt. ii. p. 411.

98

Dissert. Perip. t. ii. lib. v. sub fin.

99

Tenneman, ix. 148.

100

Tenneman, ix. 167.

101

Ibid. 158.

102

Agrippa, De Occult. Phil. lib. i. c. l.

103

Written in 1526.

104

Philip Aurelius Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, also called Paracelsus Eremita, born at Einsiedlen in Switzerland, in 1493.

105

Hist. Sc. Id. b. ix. c. 2. sect. 1. The Mystical School of Biology.

106

Tenneman, ix. 221.

107

Tenneman, ix. 265.

108

Bernardini Telesii Consentini De Rerum Natura juxta propria Principia.

109

I take this account from Tenneman: this Proem was omitted in subsequent editions of Telesius, and is not in the one which I have consulted. Tenneman, Gesch. d. Phil. ix. 280.

110

Proem.

111

"De Principiis atque Originibus secundum fabulas Cupidinis et Cœli: sive Parmenidis et Telesii et præcipuè Democriti Philosophia tractata in Fabula de Cupidine."

112

"Talia sunt qualia possunt esse ea quæ ab intellectu sibi permisso, nec ab experimentis continenter et gradatim sublevato, profecta videntur."

113

Thom. Campanella de Libris propriis, as quoted in Tenneman, ix. 291.

114

Economisti Italiani, t. i. p. xxxiii.

115

Tenneman, ix. 305.

116

Hist. Ind. Sc. b. xvi. c. iii. sect. 2.

117

Ibid. b. xvii. c. ii. sect. 1.

118

Quæst. Peripat. i. 1.

119

Tenneman, ix. 108.

120

Hist. Ind. Sc. b. v. c. iii. sect. 2.

121

Tenneman, ix. 420. "Quæcunque ab Aristotele dicta essent commenticia esse." Freigius, Vita Petri Rami, p. 10.

122

Rami, Animadv. Aristot. i. iv.

123

See Hist. Ind. Sc. b. iv. c. iv. sect. 4.

124

Tenneman, ix. 230.

125

Ibid. 108.

126

Tenneman, ix. 246.

127

Melancthon, De Anima, p. 207, quoted in Tenneman, ix. 121.

128

His works have never been published, and exist in manuscript in the library of the Institute at Paris. Some extracts were published by Venturi, Essai sur les Ouvrages de Leonard da Vinci. Paris, 1797.

129

Leonardo died in 1520, at the age of 78.

130

Paul III. in 1543.

131

Hist. Ind. Sc. b. v. c. ii.

132

Born 1537, died 1619.

133

Hist. Ind. Sc. b. xvii. c. ii. sect. 1.

134

Fabricius, De Motu Locali, p. 182.

135

p. 199.

136

Speculationum Liber, p. 195.

137

Ibid. p. 169.

138

Gulielmi Gilberti, Colcestriensis, Medici Londinensis, De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus, et de Magno Magnete Tellure, Physiologia Nova, plurimis et Argumentis et Experimentis demonstrata.

139

Hist. Ind. Sc. b. xii. c. i.

140

Pref.

141

De Magnete, lib. vi. c. 3, 4.

142

Nov. Org. b. i.

143

B. i. Aph. 64.

144

Vol. ix. 185.

145

De Magnete, p. 60.

146

B. iii. c. 4.

147

Nov. Org. b. ii. Aph. 48.

148

Drinkwater's Life of Galileo, p. 18.

149

Life of Galileo, p. 9.

150

Hist. Ind. Sc.

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