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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28790	The cure of old age and preservation of youth by Roger Bacon... ; translated out of Latin, with annotations and an account of his life and writings / by Richard Browne. Also, a physical account of the tree of life / by Edw. Madeira Arrais ; translated likewise out of Latin by the same hand.	Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294.; Arrais, Duarte Madeira, d. 1652.; Browne, Richard, fl. 1674-1694.	1683 (1683)	Wing B372; ESTC R30749	117,539	326

good that he in twenty Years time expended in Books of Curiosities and in making natural Experiments above two Thousand Pounds a vast Summ of Money in those days He was of that Noble and Publick Spirit that he not only freely imparted all his Secrets but was overjoyed when he light on a Man that was but of any Capacity to understand him He either followed or rather invented such a Method in his Studies as by it he discovered unknown things in Nature and did such Wonders that not only the Vulgar but even some Learned Men thought him a Conjurer Some report he made a Brazen Head that spake and think he did it by the help of the Devil But Albertus Magnus did the same and Boëthius the like without any other Magick than Natural For Cassiodorus writes thus to Boëthius Tuae artis Ingenio metalla mugiunt Diomedes in aere gravius buccinatur aeneus Anguis insibilat Aves simulatae sunt Et quae vocem propriam nesciunt habere dulcedinem Cantilenae probantur emittere i. e. By the Ingenuity of your Art Metals roar Diomede in Brass sounds a hollow Charge the Brazen Serpent hisseth Birds are counterfeited And things that have no Voice of their own are made to sing melodiously And well might so learned a Man as Bacon be then taken for a Magician when in the Dawning of our more learned Day Reuchlin for his skill in the Hebrew and Budaeus in the Greek Tongue were looked upon by the unlearned silly Monks to be Conjurers But such was the stupid Ingratitude of Bacon's Age that it almost repented this Learned Man of his Knowledge For his own Order would scarce admit his Books into their Libraries And great was this poor Mans Vnhappiness For being accused of Magick and Heresy and appealing to Pope Nicolas the fourth the Pope liked not his Learning and by his Authority kept him close Prisoner a great many Years Some say at last through the Mediation of some great Men he obtained his Liberty Others say he died in Prison either through Grief or his hard Vsage However it was he died in the Seventy eighth Year of his Age Ann. Dom. 1292. and was buried in the Franciscan's Church in Oxford Thus did the gross Ignorance and Malice of those Times prevent this knowing Man in making the greatest of his Experiments i. e. in extending the Period of his Days as far beyond the common Age of Man as in Knowledge he surpassed the common Standard an eternal Monument whereof this present Treatise will be He wrote a great many Books on divers Subjects in Divinity Physick Opticks and Philosophy wherein he discovered many Secrets He published a Latin Greek and Hebrew Grammar and wrote much in Chymistry Cosmography Musick Astronomy Astrology Metaphysicks Logick and Moral Philosophy He proposed the Emendation of the Iulian Calendar to Pope Clement the fourth Middleburgensis used Bacon's Arguments to Pope Leo the tenth And Copernicus by the help of Middleburgensis rectified it for the Council of Trent the ninth Year of Gregory the thirteenth Ann. Dom. 1581. He was the greatest Critick of his Age and complained lamentably of the Ignorance of his Cotemporaries For he saith that there were some sawcy Youngsters who were then created sine Arte ulla Artium Magistri and sine Doctrina Doctores amongst whom Ego currit was Grammatical Latin current and Contradictoria possunt esse simul vera true Logick And he spared neither the Ignorance nor the ill Lives of the Clergy no wonder then he was so ill treated by them He highly condemned the Divinity Lectures of his Time as spoiled by the bad words and worse Sense of the Civil Lawyers and complains that not a Man in England besides Grosthead and two or three more of his acquaintance understood the Hebrew or Greek Tongues and that he could not meet with one good Translation of the Scriptures But since he had discovered them to be no Witches they would prove him to be one And it seems on some malicious Pretence they took from him his Books and Writings long before Pope Nicolas cast him in Prison whereupon he complained in these words to the preceding Pope Clement the fourth who was his friend Praelati enim Fratres me jejuniis macerantes tutò custodiebant nec aliquem ad me venire voluerunt veriti ne scripta mea aliis quàm Summo Pontifici sibi ipsis pervenirent For the Prelates and Friers have kept me starving in close Prison nor would they suffer any one to come at me fearing lest my Writings should come to any other than the Pope and themselves Now the true Reason of his great Misfortune was this He had been intimate with that Learned Prelate and true English man Robert Grosthead Bishop of Lincoln This Bishop observing the Popes Tyranny in England for he lived in King John's time who acknowledged this Crown feudatory to the Pope forbore not to admonish that Romish Tyrant by Letters openly and to declare to his Friends that the Pope was Antichrist The Pope excommunicates the Bishop he appeals from the Pope's to Christ's Tribunal and dyes about two Years after Now Bacon knowing all this as well as the Bishop was very like much of Grostheads Opinion This then was the Heresy this the casting of that Figure which made him guilty of Witchcraft Many of Bacon's Works and of Grosthead's also curiously written and well bound were by some ignorant Men that would be accounted Scholars when they could not understand them condemned for Books of the Black Art and so fastened with long Nails to the Boards they either became Food for Worms and Moths or rotted with Mould and Dust. Leland saith he wrote many Books but that it is more easie to make a Collection of Sibylla's Leaves than to get but the Titles of all his Books He complained much of the Neglect of Chymistry and Philosophy in his days In his Book De utilitate Scientiarum he writes thus But by this means Philosophy not only became suspected as if it hindred the Faith of Christ but was condemned by the Iustice of those Laws that were for the Defence of the Commonwealth from the contrary Opinion It seemed by foretelling things to come by discovering Secrets for the time being and by wonderful Work 's above the power of Nature and Art as they work commonly to contend with the Preachers of the Faith whose Property it was not by Nature and Art but by the Power of God to give out their Philosophy of future things to produce Secrets and raise Miracles For that the Power of Philosophy can do wonderful things such as the common sort not only of Laicks but of the Clergy will reckon for Miracles the things following will declare c. But that we may give to God the things that are Gods as well as to his Handmaid hers the Words of Steuchus are considerable How the Visions of the Prophets are made He knows who is Lord of the Prophets● I think