The Discovery of a World in the Moone

contrary opinion: men whose envious pride will not allow any new thing to be truth if they themselves were not the first inventors of it. So that I may justly expect to be accused of a pragmatic ignorance and bold ostentation, especially since for this opinion Xenophanes—a man whose authority was able to add some credit to his assertion—could not escape the like censure from others. For Natales Comes, speaking of that philosopher and this his opinion, says thus: original: "Nonnulli ne nihil scisse videantur, aliqua nova monstra in Philosophia introducunt, ut alicujus rei inventores fuisse appareant." "Some there are who, lest they might seem to know nothing, will bring up monstrous absurdities in philosophy, that so afterward they may be famed for the invention of something." The same author does also in another place accuse Anaxagoras of
Mythology, book 3, chapter 17.

Book 7, chapter 1.