[1506] “Corporalium vero influentiarum divinum lumen sensibile est medium.”
[1507] “Et dum sic per figuras speculorum discurrimus celestes et omnes naturales influentias a subiectis corporibus sub quodam reflexionis modo ad alia corpora declaramus.”
[1508] “Placuit tibi in illius rei occulta indagine versari,” in the 1572 edition; but in Quetif-Echard (1719) I, 389, “in illius rei occultae indagine.”
[1509] III, 5-6.
[1510] X, 43 et seq.
[1511] Baeumker (1908), p. 237.
[1512] Ibid., p. 224.
[1513] Such is Baeumker’s opinion; why Dr. Charles Singer in his lecture on “Science” in Medieval Contributions to Modern Civilisation, (p. 140), speaks of Witelo as “the earliest” of the group of forward-looking scientific thinkers which culminated in Roger Bacon and dates him “(c. 1250)” I do not know.
CHAPTER LVI
VINCENT OF BEAUVAIS