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Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Europe, Oxford, 1985, pp. 214–222, aici p. 220. Pentru perioada în care apar primele proiecte ale unei
revoluflii a cunoaøterii, vezi Wolfgang Krohn, Francis Bacon, München, 1987, p. 23 sq.
4. Francis Bacon, Of the Proficiens and Advancement of Learning Divine and Human, in Works, vol. III (II, I, 3), 1857, p. 330. Vezi øi Francis Bacon,
De Augmentis Scientiarum, in Works, vol. III, 1857, pp. 413–837, aici II, 2, p. 496; traducere germanæ de Johann Hermann Pfingsten, Über
die Würde und den Fortgang der Wissenschaften, Pest, 1783 (retipærire fotomecanicæ, Darmstadt, 1966), p. 173.
5. Pe la 1580, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Viena, colecfliile castelului Ambras, nr. inv. 8329.
6. Roberto Zapperi, „Arrigo le Velu, Pietro le Fou, Amon le Nain et autres Bêtes: Autour d’un Tableau d’Agostino Carrache“, in Annales Économies
Sociétés Civilisations, nr. 2, 1985, pp. 307–327.
7. Ulisse Aldrovandi, Monstrorum Historia, Bologna, 1642, p. 16. Pentru interpretarea pe care o dæ Bacon monøtrilor, fundamental este studiul
lui Katharine Park øi Lorraine J. Daston, „Unnatural Conceptions: The Study of Monsters in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century France and
England“, in Past and Present, vol. 92, 1981, pp. 20–54, aici p. 43 sqq. Pentru un studiu recent despre monøtri, vezi William B. Ashworth Jr.,
„Remarkable Humans and Singular Beasts“, in Joy Kenseth (ed.), The Age of Marvelous, Hanover (New Hampshire), Hood Museum of Art,
Dartmouth College, 1991, pp. 113–144.
8. Francis Bacon, Novum Organum, sive Indicia Vera de Interpretatione Naturae, in Works, vol. I (II, 29), 1857, p. 282 [Noul Organon, traducere
de N. Petrescu øi M. Florian, Bucureøti, Editura Academiei, 1957, pp. 155–156].
9. Ibid., p. 282 sq.; citat aici dupæ traducerea lui Anton Theobald Brück, Neues Organ der Wissenschaften, Leipzig, 1830 (retipærire fotomecanicæ,
Darmstadt, 1974), p. 151 sq. [155].
10. Aici Bacon reia forma anticæ a experimentului considerat ca o torturæ. Vezi Hartmut Böhme, „Gaia. Bilder der Erde von Hesiod bis James Lovelock“,
in Terre – Repere – Terre / Erde – Zeichen – Erde [etc.], Hamburg, 1992, pp. 18–64, aici p. 40 sq.
11. Francis Bacon, Of the Proficiens and Advancement of Learning Divine and Human, II, I, 6, p. 73: „For as a man’s disposition is never well known
till he be crossed, nor Proteus ever changed shape till he was straitened and held fast; so the passages and variations of nature cannot appear
so fully in the liberty of nature, as in the trials and vexations of art“. Vezi Francis Bacon, Novum Organum, I, 98, p. 203: „Occulta naturae magis
se produnt per vexationes artium, quam cum cursu suo meant“ [p. 82].
12. Francis Bacon, De Augmentis Scientiarum, II, 2, p. 496: „Artificialia a naturalibus non Forma aut Essentia, sed Efficiente solummodo, differe“.
13. Ibid., p. 496: „Libenter autem Historiam Artium ut Historiae Naturalis speciem constituimus“.
14. Ibid., p. 498: „Quod a miraculis naturae ad miracula artis expeditus sit transitus et pervius. Neque enim huic rei plus inest negotii, praeterquam
ut naturae vestigia persequaris sagaciter, cum ipsa sponte aberret; ut hoc pacto postea, cum tibi libuerit, eam eodem loci deducere et compellere
possis“.
15. Vechiul Testament, Pildele lui Solomon, 8, 30–31: „Cum eo [= deo] eram, cuncta componens. / Et delectabar per singulos dies, / Ludens coram
eo omni tempore, / Ludens in orbe terrarum; / Et deliciae meae cum filiis hominem“. [Biblia sau Sfînta Scripturæ, Bucureøti, 1997.]
16. Beda Venerabilis, Super Parabolas Salomonis Allegorica Exposito, in Patrologia Latina [Migne], vol. XCI, col. 966 b. Despre textul ebraic, vezi
Othmar Keel, Die Weisheit spielt vor Gott, Freiburg-Göttingen, 1974, pp. 29 sq., 69 sq.
17. Platon, Legile, 803 c, 804 b.
18. Kaspar Schott, Magia Optica, das ist: geheime doch naturmässige Gesicht- und Augen-Lehr, Bamberg, 1671, p. 153; vezi Hans Stöcklein, Leitbilder
der Technik. Biblische Tradition und technischer Fortschritt, München, 1969, p. 85.
19. Plinius cel Bætrîn, Naturalis Historiae, ediflie øi traducere de Roderich König øi Gerhard Winkler, ediflia Tusculum, vol. VII, 1975, p. 32 (VII, II,
32): „Haes atque talia ex homunium genere ludibria sibi, nobis miracula ingeniosa fecit natura“. Vezi øi vol. IX, 1979, p. 78 (IX, XXXIII, 102);
vol. XXI/XXII, 1985 (XXI, I, 1). Vezi Paula Findlen, „Jokes of Nature and Jokes of Knowledge: The Playfulness of Scientific Discourse in Early
Modern Europe“, in Renaissance Quarterly, vol. XLIII, nr. 2, 1990, pp. 292–331, aici p. 196. Linné mai vorbeøte încæ despre monøtri ca de
o „glumæ“ a naturii (Wolf Lepenies, Das Ende der Naturgeschichte. Wandel kultureller Selbstverständlichkeiten in den Wissenschaften des 18. und
19. Jahrhunderts, Frankfurt am Main, 1978, pp. 70, 173).
20. Leone Battista Alberti, On Painting and on Sculpture – The Latin Texts of De Pictura and De Statua, ediflie de Cecil Grayson, Oxford, 1972, § 1,
p. 120. Vezi Horst Woldemar Janson, „The «Image Made by Chance» in Renaissance Thought“, in Millard Meiss (ed.), De Artibus Opuscula
XL. Essays in Honor of Erwin Panofsky, vol. I, New York, 1961, pp. 254–266 øi Jurgis Baltrušaitis, Imaginäre Realitäten. Fiktion und Illusion als
produktive Kraft, Köln, 1984, p. 55 sqq., care porneøte de la remarca analogæ a lui Leonardo da Vinci referitoare la imaginile formate de hazard
pe ziduri.
21. Platon, Parmenide, 137 b. Despre influenfla jocurilor contemporane, vezi Wolfgang Breidert, „Rhythmomachie und Globusspiel. Bemerkungen
zu zwei mittelalterlichen Lehrspielen“, in Mitteilungen und Forschungsbeiträge der Cusanus-Gesellschaft, vol. 10, 1973, pp. 155–171.
22. Nikolaus von Kues (Nicolaus Cusanus), Vom Globusspiel, traducere de Gerda von Bredow, Hamburg, 1978, 2, p. 1.
23. Ibid., 45, p. 34.
24. Carolyn Merchant, Der Tod der Natur. Ökologie, Frauen und neuzeitliche Naturwissenschaft, München, 1987, p. 189 sq.; vezi punctul de vedere
advers la Frances A. Yates, Aufklärung im Zeichen des Rosenkreuzes, Stuttgart, 1975, p. 129 sqq. [Iluminismul rozicrucian, traducere de Petru
Creflia, Bucureøti, Humanitas, 1997, pp. 142 sqq.] øi Wolfgang Krohn, Francis Bacon, pp. 135 sqq., 173 despre caracterul metodic fragmentar
øi færæ progresie liniaræ al revolufliei øtiinflifice propuse de Bacon, iar p. 165 sq. despre responsabilitatea eticæ a cercetætorilor „Noii Atlantide“.
25. Francis Bacon, Novum Organum, II, 31, p. 286 [159]: „Rursus, inter Ingenia et Manus Hominis, non prorsus contemmenda sunt praestigiae
et jocularia. Nonulla enim ex istis, licet sint usu levia et ludicra, tamen informatione valida esse possunt“.
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