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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