[54] De eodem et diverso, p. 13.
[55] De eodem et diverso, p. 13.
[56] Quest. nat., cap. 15.
[57] Ibid., cap. 19.
[58] Ibid., cap. 35.
[59] The ascription of this work to Aristotle is questioned by D’Arcy W. Thompson (1913), 14, note, who calls attention to the fact that the majority of the numerous place-names in it are from southern Italy or Sicily; “and I live in hopes of seeing this work, or a very large portion of it, expunged, for this and other weightier reasons, from the canonical writings of Aristotle.”
[60] See below, chapter 61, page 621.
[61] I refute this theory, however, in Appendix II to the chapter on Bacon.
[62] Reinaud et Favé, Le feu grégeois et les origines de la poudre à canon, (1845) p. 210. In the quotation from Christine de Pisan at pp. 219-20, however, it seems to me that she has reference only to the poisons last-named and not to the Greek fires previously named in declaring them inhuman and against all the laws of war.
[63] Ibid., p. 128.