P. 58, l. 16. than by his own poems, see p. xii. of Introduction.
P. 59, l. 20. certain notes, &c. According to the story, a monk of Arezzo invented the staff notation, taking for the names of the notes the initial syllables of six lines of a hymn to St John the Baptist; Ut, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La.
P. 60, l. 5. What have we remaining of Magic? Burnet treats Magic and the replies of the Oracles quite seriously (Sacred Theory, II. pp. 206-7, ed. 1697).
P. 61, l. 23. invention, discovery.
P. 62, l. 1. the loadstone, the compass.
P. 62, l. 14. surrounded, circumnavigated.
P. 64, 1. 3. the lands of Yedso. Cf. 'In this manner I departed from Kamschatka, and passing the latitude of 52°52′, entered the channel of the Kurile Isles, commonly called Jedso.' (Rochon's Voyage to Madagascar, in Pinkerton, Vol. 16, p. 782.)
P. 64, l. 13. New Holland. Australia.
P. 68, l. 4. how the voice of man is framed, a reference to Part III. Chapter XIV. of Wilkins' Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language (1668), in which he explains how speech-sounds are formed. Cf. note on p. 23, l. 10.
The rest of the paragraph refers to Copernicus, Newton, and other astronomers and philosophers.
P. 69, l. 20. Gresham College, the Royal Society, see note on p. 28, l. 9.
P. 70, l. 2. Strada (1572-1649), author of Prolusiones (see Guardian, Nos. 115, 119, 122) and Historia de Bello Belgico.
P. 70, l. 3. Sleyden, Johannes Sleidanus (1506-56), wrote a Latin history of Charles V.
