Abstract
One the most famous images in English Renaissance literature is the engraved title page to Bacon's Instauratio Magna, showing the ship learning sailing back through the pillars Hercules-the straits Gibraltar which traditionally marked the limits human knowledge the world-returning from the open seas, bringing with it new ideas and discoveries. Underneath the engraving is a quotation from the Book Daniel (12:4) in the Latin Vulgate: Multi pertransibunt et augebitur scientia. Bacon adopted this quotation as his own, giving it a rather personal interpretation, as he explained when using it for the first time in chapter 1 Valerius Terminus, entitled of the limits and end knowledge. Here he writes that although the highest law nature is reserved for God, the inferior levels knowledge are still many and noble, and are
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