| version can understand, nor do justice to,
| Bacon's science.
with the Annotations of |
Hermes Stella{2} | 2. Franz Trägfer sums up the
Harley MSS.6463 | discussion on "Hermes Stella"
| and "Valerius Terminus" "Der Titel des
| Fragments wurde zweimal entscheidend
| interpretiert. Ellis (Vorwort,
| 201/2):
|
| "It is impossible to ascertain
| the motive which determined
| Bacon to give the supposed
| author the name of Valerius
| Terminus, or to his
| commentator, of whose
| annotations we have no remains,
| that of Hermes Stella. It may
| be conjectured that by the name
| Terminus he intended to
| intimate that the new
| philosophy would put an end to
| the wandering of mankind in
| search of truth, that it would
| be the TERMINUS AD QAEM in
| which when it was once attained
| the mind would finally
| acquiesce.
|
| Again the obscurity of the text