On the Philosophy of Discovery, Chapters Historical and Critical

by William Whewell

[106] Tenneman, ix. 221.

[107] Tenneman, ix. 265.

[108] Bernardini Telesii Consentini De Rerum Natura juxta propria Principia.

[109] I take this account from Tenneman: this Proem was omitted in subsequent editions of Telesius, and is not in the one which I have consulted. Tenneman, Gesch. d. Phil. ix. 280.

[110] Proem.

[111] "De Principiis atque Originibus secundum fabulas Cupidinis et Cœli: sive Parmenidis et Telesii et præcipuè Democriti Philosophia tractata in Fabula de Cupidine."

[112] "Talia sunt qualia possunt esse ea quæ ab intellectu sibi permisso, nec ab experimentis continenter et gradatim sublevato, profecta videntur."

[113] Thom. Campanella de Libris propriis, as quoted in Tenneman, ix. 291.

[114] Economisti Italiani, t. i. p. xxxiii.

[115] Tenneman, ix. 305.