On the Philosophy of Discovery, Chapters Historical and Critical

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.

Ante primum nihil,Post primum omnia,A principio omnia," &c.

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. b. vi. c. ii. sect. 5.

151

Life of Galileo, p. 29.

152

Ibid. p. 33.

153

Il Saggiatore, ii. 247.

154

Il Saggiatore, ii. 200.

155

Ibid. i. 501.

156

Hist. Ind. Sc. b. vi. c. ii. sect. 2.

157

Hist. Ind. Sc. b. vi. c. ii. sect. 4.

158

Ibid. b. v. c. iv. sect. 1.

159

De Stell. Mart. p. iv. c. 51 (1609); Drinkwater's Kepler, p. 33.

160

Published 1604. Hist. Ind. Sc. b. ix. c. ii.

161

Hist. Ind. Sc. b. v. c. iv. sect. i.

162

Hist. Ind. Sc. b. vii. c. vi. sect 1.

163

De Stell. Mart. p. 11. c. 19.

164

Hist. Ind. Sc. b. ii. c. iv. sect. 6.

165

Ibid. sect. 8.

166

Montucla, i. 566.

167

De Augm. lib. iv. c. 1.

168

And in other passages: thus, "Ego enim buccinator tantum pugnam non ineo." Nov. Org. lib. iv. c. i.

169

Lib. 1. Aphor. 78 et seq.

170

Aug. Sc. Lib. iii. c. 4. p. 194. So in other places, as Nov. Org. i. Aph. 104. "De scientiis tum demum bene sperandum est quando per scalam veram et per gradus continuos, et non intermissos aut hiulcos a particularibus ascendetur ad axiomata minora, et deinde ad media, alia aliis superiora, et postremo demum ad generalissima."

171

Nov. Org. 1. Aph. 22.

172

Ib. Aph. 20.

173

1 Ax. 15.

174

Nov. Org. lib. ii. Aph. 19.

175

Inst. Mag. par. iii. (vol. viii. p. 244).

176

Hist. Ind. Sc. b. x. c. i.

177

Ib. c. iv.

178

Nov. Org. lib. i. Aph. 61.

179

Nov. Org. lib. ii. Aph. 10.

180

Aph. 11.

181

Aph. 15, p. 105.

182

Page 110.

183

Herschel, On the Study of Nat. Phil. Art. 192.

184

Nov. Org. lib. i. Aph. 40.

185

Nov. Org. lib. i. Ax. 103.

186

Edinb. Rev. No. cxxxii. p. 65.

187

Ib.

188

Pref. to the Nat. Hist. i. 243.

189

Nov. Org. lib. i. Aph. 19.

190

Ibid. lib. i. Aph. 20.

191

Aph. 27.

192

Ib. 28.

193

Aph. 104. So Aph. 105. "In constituendo axiomate forma inductionis alia quam adhuc in usu fuit excogitanda est," &c.