_Compendium Studii_, Rolls Series, vol. xv, pp. 421–422. Footnote 31: Bridges, _Opus Maius_, vol. i, pp. 253–269. Footnote 32: _De Secretis_, ch. 3, discusses this question of fascination and also the power of words and of the human soul. In regard to characters and incantations, see _De Secretis_, ch. 2, and the _Opus Tertium_, which is also contained in vol. xv of the Rolls Series, ch. 26. Footnote 33: _Opus Tertium_, ch. 27. Footnote 34: “Gaspar fert myrram, thus Melchoir, Balthasar aurum. Haec tria qui secum portabit nomina regum Solvitur a morbo Christi pietate caduco.” _Hist. Litt._, vol. xxv, p. 327. Footnote 35: See _Liber Mineralium_. _Opera Omnia_, ed. Borgnet (1890), vol. v, page 23 _et seq._ Footnote 36: Two good accounts of Arnald are those in the _Histoire Littéraire_, vol. xxviii and Lea, _History of the Inquisition_, vol. iii, pp. 52–57. Older accounts are generally very misleading. Footnote 37: J. M. Rigg, _Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola_, London, 1890, pp. viii-x. Footnote 38: Janssen, _History of the German People_, vol. iii, p. 45, of the English translation by A. M. Christie (1900). Footnote 39: Henry Morley, _Life of Agrippa von Nettesheim_ (London, 1856), vol. i, p. 79. This biography includes a full and instructive outline of Agrippa’s work on _Occult Philosophy_. Footnote 40: A. E. Waite, _Hermetical and Alchemistical Writings of Paracelsus_, vol. i, p. xii. Footnote 41: For Cardan, see the biography in two volumes by Henry Morley, London, 1854, and that in one volume by W. G. Waters, London. 1898. Footnote 42: J. L. E. Dreyer, _Tycho Brahe. A Picture of Scientific Life and Work in the Sixteenth Century_ (Edinburgh, 1890), p. 56. A valuable book. Footnote 43: _De Augmentis Scientiarum_, bk. iv, ch. 1. Footnote 44: _Ibid._, bk. iv, ch. 3. Footnote 45: _Ibid._, bk. iii, ch. 4. Footnote 46: Bodin for instance condemned “magic” in his _De Magorum Daemonomania_ (Paris, 1581). Footnote 47: Bridges, _Opus Maius_, vol. i, p. 241. See too the _De Secretis Operibus Artis et Naturae et de Nullitate Magiae_. Rolls Series, vol. xv, appendix. Footnote 48: _Spec. Astron._, ch. 17. Albertus Magnus, _Opera Omnia_, ed. Borgnet (1890), vol. x, pp. 629 _et seq._ And he finally came to the conclusion that “concerning books of necromancy the better judgment—prejudice aside—seems to be that they ought rather to be preserved than destroyed. For the time is perchance near at hand in which, for reasons which I now suppress, it will be advantageous to consult them occasionally. Nevertheless, let their inspectors abstain from abuse of them.” Ch. 17. Similarly Roger Bacon, in his _De Secretis_, ch. 3, after mentioning books of magic to be eschewed, remarked that many books classed as magic were not such but contained worthy wisdom. Footnote 49: