Bodhana's Independence of Mind

Bodhana wrote on natural philosophy called the Theater of All Nature in 1596, 30 years after his first major work. He followed advice of Erasmus by keeping commonplace books of citation and passages that struck him as he pursued a lifetime of voracious reading. A recent biographer of Bodhana has remarked that he was congenitally argumentative,. Few authorities unchallenged, few examples unpresented from his vast store of learning.