[2258] Ibid., 396.
[2259] Or perhaps because of it, since “The famous historie of Fryer Bacon” in prose takes two chapters word for word from the English translation of “The Epistle concerning the secret works of nature and the nullity of magic”—see Sandys, p. 365 in Little, Essays.
[2260] See J. E. Sandys, “Roger Bacon in English Literature,” in Little, Essays.
[2261] Gabriel Naudé, Apologie pour tous les grands personages qui ont esté faussement soupçonnez de Magie, Paris, 1625.
[2262] Sanioris medicinae magistri D. Rogeri Baconis angli de arte chymiae scripta, etc., Frankfurt, 1603; reprinted 1620 as “Thesaurus Chemicus,” etc.
[2263] By Combach, Specula mathematica, etc., Frankfurt, 1614.
[2264] Reprinted at Venice, 1750.
[2265] So in a MS of the 16-17th century at Cambridge, Trinity 1119, fols. 56v-68v (ends incompletely) “Here followeth the first part of the great work namely the experimental science of Roger Bacon written to Clemens ye Pope.”
[2266] Ed. A. B. Gough, 1915, p. 14.
[2267] Ibid., p. 15.