A Finding List: Part 2.
Bacon’s Acquaintances, Friends, Companions, Colleagues
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In this section, it was felt the need to contain all persons referred to in Bacon’s works, speeches, and letters who were his acquaintances, friends, or companions.
They are given a well deserved synoptical, yet understandable biography. This way, all references noted to persons mentioned by Bacon would be well understood to why he referred to them, and under what circumstances they surrounded his lifestyle. In continuation to these synoptical biographies, are the works of these persons either in a detailed account that will be found in the Appendix volume or in a synoptical form after each individual biography.
Where no additional information is added to those works, is due to the lack of historical records, which is believed to be more and more noted to modern researchers on the history of those times and especially when compiling such a volume as this one.
A jesty note from Edmund Burke will end the introduction to this part: “Strip majesty of its externals and it is merely a jest.” [(m)ajest(y).]
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Napier John (1550–1615) By the publication (1614) of his Logarithmic Tables on which he was busied before 1594, but of which Francis Bacon never appears to have had any knowledge bestowed on astronomy a benefit which has been described by Laplace as “doubling the life of astronomers by reducing to a few days the labour of many months.”
Napier Richard. Dr (1559–1634) Astrologer under the guidance of Simon Forman, an astrologer and charlatan physician.
Nashe Thomas (1567–1600) Dramatist and pamphleteer. After the death of Greene, when his memory was assailed by Gabriel Harvey (1550–1630) and others whom he had offended, his friend Nashe who attempted to defend him, finding it difficult to do so, makes up for the lameness of his defence by the bitterness of his attack on Harvey. Nashe, in fact, resents being regarded as an intimate of Greene’s, yet his, and Greene’s, spiteful and ill-bred reflections upon Shakespeare’s social quality, education, and personal appearance, between 1589 and 1592, were received sympathetically by the remainder of the “gentlemen poets,” as they styled themselves in contradistinction to the stage poets, and used thereafter for years as a keynote to their own jealous abuse of him.
Nine Muses In Greek myth, were the daughters of Memory, and presided over various arts and sciences. They were Clio, the Muse of History; Eyterpe, Lyric Poetry; Thalia, Comedy; Melpomene, Tragedy; Terpsichore, Dancing; Erato, Love Poetry; Polyhymnia, Psalmody; Urania, Astronomy and Calliope, Epic Poetry.
Nova Villa de Arnoldus Lived towards the end of the thirteenth century. He was an alchemist, and was accused of being a magician. He professed medicine at Montpellier; and probably he took his name from Villeneuve, which is not far from it. Brantô makes Raymond Lully his disciple. Villa Nova’s best-known work is the commentary on the Regimen Sanitatis Scholœ Salernitanœ. Bacon comments on him in his work Temporis Partus Masculus.