Chapter VI · Notes
C. T. (Charles Thomas) Campion translation
9 Bacon was Lord Chancellor under James I. of England, but was in 1621 deprived of his office because found guilty of corruption. His two chief works are the Novum Organum Scientiarum (1620) and De Dignitate et Augmentis Scientiarum (1623). Of the New Atlantis only a fragment has survived.
10 See the writer’s books: Das Messianitäts- und Leidensgeheimniss. Eine Skizze des Lebens Jesu (1901). English version: The Mystery of the Kingdom of God (1914 A. & C. Black). Geschichte der Leben-Jesu Forschung (1906; new edition, 1922). English version: The Quest of the Historical Jesus (1911; 3rd impression, 1922 A. & C. Black).
11 Gassendi: De vita, moribus, et doctrina Epicuri (1647) and Syntagma philosophiæ Epicuri (1649).