[36]. Two good accounts of Arnald are those in the Histoire Littéraire, vol. xxviii and Lea, History of the Inquisition, vol. iii, pp. 52–57. Older accounts are generally very misleading.
[37]. J. M. Rigg, Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola, London, 1890, pp. viii-x.
[38]. Janssen, History of the German People, vol. iii, p. 45, of the English translation by A. M. Christie (1900).
[39]. Henry Morley, Life of Agrippa von Nettesheim (London, 1856), vol. i, p. 79. This biography includes a full and instructive outline of Agrippa’s work on Occult Philosophy.
[40]. A. E. Waite, Hermetical and Alchemistical Writings of Paracelsus, vol. i, p. xii.
[41]. For Cardan, see the biography in two volumes by Henry Morley, London, 1854, and that in one volume by W. G. Waters, London. 1898.
[42]. J. L. E. Dreyer, Tycho Brahe. A Picture of Scientific Life and Work in the Sixteenth Century (Edinburgh, 1890), p. 56. A valuable book.
[43]. De Augmentis Scientiarum, bk. iv, ch. 1.
[44]. Ibid., bk. iv, ch. 3.
[45]. Ibid., bk. iii, ch. 4.