[2106] Rashdall says in the introduction to his edition of Bacon’s Compendium Studii Theologiae (Aberdeen, 1911), p. 3: “There is a certain irony in the fact that the writer’s argument in favor of independent thinking as against authority consists chiefly of a series of citations.”
[2107] Bridges, I, 5-6 and also p. 7, where Bacon quotes another sentence from Adelard without naming him, “Et ideo multi ... cur a tergo non scribitis.”
[2108] See chapter 42 on Daniel Morley.
[2109] Bridges, I, 17; Opus Tertium, Brewer, 70, 91, 187.
[2110] Bacon’s ignorance of Spanish would probably in any case have prevented him from securing Alfonso as a patron.
[2111] Bridges, I, 192, 196, 271, 298, 299, note. Duhem, III (1915) 234, notes that in astronomical tables of 1232 for London tables for other cities are also mentioned: Paris, Marseilles, Pisa, Palermo, Constantinople, and Genoa, as well as Toledo.
[2112] Since it mentions the battle of Valbona in that year.
[2113] See Chapter 67.
[2114] Opus Tertium, Brewer, 37.
[2115] C. Baeumker, Witelo, ein Philosoph und Naturforscher des XIII Jahrhunderts, Münster, 1906. See Chapter 55, Appendix I.