applied knowledge. In the first age of print people had not yet 
acquired this ability.

A strange wedding of the medieval Book of Nature and the new 
book from movable types was conducted by Francis Bacon.

*     In order to clarify Bacon’s strange ideas about science and 
the text of the Book of Nature a brief look at this idea in the 
Middle Ages is necessary.

     Ernst Robert Curtius has taken up the subject of “The 
Book as Symbol” in chapter xvi of European Literature and the  
Latin Middle Ages . Greece and Rome had made little use of book 
symbol or metaphor, and it “was through Christianity that the 
book received its highest consecration. Christianity was a 
religion or the Holy Book. Christ is the only god whom antique