TO THE LITERATURE OF EUROPE IN THE FIFTEENTH, SIXTEENTH, AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES. BY HENRY HALLAM, F. R. A. S., CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ACADEMY OF MORAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCES "De modo autem hujusmodi historiæ conscribendæ, illud imprimis monemus, ut materia et copia ejus, non tantum ab historiis et criticis petatur, verum etiam per singulas annorum centurias, aut etiam minora intervalla, seriatim libri præciput, qui eo temporis spatio conscripti sunt, in consilium adhibeantur; ut ex eorum non perlectione (id enim infinitum quiddam esset), sed degustatione, et observatione argumenti, styli, methodi, genius illius temporis literarius, veluti incantatione quadam, a mortuis evocetur."-BACON, de Augm. Scient. IN TWO VOLUME S. VOL. II. NEW-YORK: PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, No. 82 CLIFF-STREET. 1847 60 Comparison of Bacon and Galileo 60 His Prejudice against Mathematics 61 Fame of Bacon on the Continent 62 His beginning to Philosophize 64 His first Step in Knowledge 64 He arrives at more Certainty 65 Primary and Secondary Qualities 66 Objections made to his Meditations 66 Theory of Memory and Imagination 66 Seat of Soul in the Pineal Gland |