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Bacon in the twelfth century and with Newton in the
eighteenth. Everything said so far in this book applies as an
introduction to Francis Bacon. And without the work of Ong,
Dantzig, and Nef already introduced, it would not be easy to
make sense of Bacon. Simply on his own terms, however, he
does make sense. He hangs together once you grant his
assumption that Nature is a Book whose pages have been
smudged by the Fall of Man. But because he belongs to the
history of modern science nobody has been disposed to grant
him his medieval assumptions. Ong and Nef and Dantzig will
have helped to clear this point. The drive towards science was,
from the ancient world to the time of Bacon, a drive to
extricate the visual from the other senses. But this stress was
inseparable from the cultivation of manuscript and print
culture. Thus the medievalism of Bacon would not have been
amiss in his time. As Febvre and Martin explain in L’Apparition