Caught this in Reading the Encyclopedia Britannica, a blog of a brave man who is going to read through the entire Enclopedia Britanica and blog about what he learns and experiences:
[an excerpt from the EB that his blog post quoted]
Among Bacon’s papers a notebook has survived, the Commentarius Solututs (”Loose Commentary”), which is revealing. It is a jotting pad “like a Marchant’s wast booke where to enter all maner or remembrance of matter, fourme, business, study, towching my self, service, others, eyther sparsim or in schedules, without any manner of restraint.” This book reveals Bacon reminding himself to flatter a possible patron, to study the weaknesses of a rival, to set intelligent noblemen in the Tower to work on servicable experiments. It displays the multiplicity of his concerns: his income and debts, the King’s business, his own garden and plans for building, philosophical speculations, his health, including his symptoms and medications, and an admonition to learn to control his breathing and not to interrupt in conversation.
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