Note 38 — AND HIS PREDECESSORS
Reading edition
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."