[34] Ibid., pt. 1, ch. 10.
[35] However, he may not always have approved of him. See M:74; "Overinquisitive theologians, too, seek to light up God's mysteries and things beyond man's understanding by means of the loadstone and amber."
[36] Nicholas of Cusa (Nicolaus Cusaneus), Nicolaus von Cues, Texte seiner philosophischen Schriften, ed. A. Petzelt, Stuttgart, 1949, bk. 1, Idiota de sapientia, p. 306 (quoted in Gilbert, M:104). It is interesting that Cusa held that the loadstone has an inclination to iron, as well as the converse!
[37] Cusa, Cusa Schriften, vol. 8, De pace fidei, translated by L. Mohler, Leipzig, 1943, ch. 12, p. 127.
[38] Cusa, Exercitationes, ch. 7, 563 and 566, quoted in, F. A. Scharpff, Des Cardinals und Bischofs Nicolaus Von Cusa Wichtigste Schriften in Deutscher Uebersetzung, Freiburg, 1862, p. 435. See also Martin Billinger, Das Philosophische in Den Excitationen Des Nicolaus Von Cues, Heidelberg, 1938, and Cusa Schriften (see [footnote 37]), vol. 8, p. 209, note 105. Gilbert (M: p. 223) called the compass "the finger of God."
[39] Hellmann, op. cit. ([footnote 6]), Norman, bk. 1, ch. 8.
[40] M: p. 14.
[41] Richard Hooker. Of the laws of ecclesiastical polity, bk. 1, ch. 3, sect. 4 (Works, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1865, vol. 1, p. 157)
[42] Francis Bacon, De augmentis scientiarum, bk. 3, ch. 4, in Works, ed. J. Spedding, R. L. Ellis, and D. D. Heath, Boston, n.d. (1900?), vol. 2, p. 267.
[43] The poems of John Donne, ed. H. J. C. Grierson, London, Oxford University Press, 1933, p. 175 ("To the Countesse of Bedford, On New Yeares Day").