| The New Atlantis | |
| Author | Francis Bacon |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Utopian novel |
| Publisher | no publisher given |
| Publication date | 1626 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 46 pp |
| ISBN | NA |
The New Atlantis is a utopian novel written by Francis Bacon in 1626. Francis Bacon 1st Viscount St Alban KC QC (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626 was an English Philosopher, Statesman, and author The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States The utopia and its offshoot the dystopia, are genres of literature that explore social and political structures Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of Literature or Information &ndash the activity of making information available for public view A hardcover (or hardback or hardbound) is a Book bound with rigid protective covers (typically of cardboard covered with Cloth Utopia is a name for an ideal community taken from the title of a book written in 1516 by Sir Thomas More describing a fictional Island in the Francis Bacon 1st Viscount St Alban KC QC (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626 was an English Philosopher, Statesman, and author
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Synopsis
The novel depicts a mythical land, Bensalem, which is discovered by the crew of an European ship after they are lost in the Pacific Ocean somewhere west of Peru. The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth 's Oceanic divisions Peru (Perú Piruw Piruw officially the Republic of Peru ( reˈpuβlika del peˈɾu is a country in western South America. The European narrator recounts some of the island's customs and, most importantly, its state-sponsored scientific institution, Salomon's House. For the current in the 19th century German idealism see Naturphilosophie Natural philosophy or the philosophy of nature (from
The best and brightest of Bensalem's citizens attend a college called Salomon's House, in which scientific experiments are conducted in Baconian method in order to understand and conquer nature, and to apply the collected knowledge to the betterment of society. The Baconian method is the investigative method developed by Francis Bacon.
Influences
- The New Atlantis is widely thought to have influenced B.F. Skinner's 1948 Walden Two. Burrhus Frederic Skinner ( March 20, 1904 &ndash August 18 1990) was an influential American Psychologist, author Walden Two ( 1948) is a fictional Utopian novel by behavioral psychologist B Skinner was a great admirer of the scientific methodology to which Bacon adhered. Scientific method refers to bodies of Techniques for investigating phenomena
See also
External links
- Project Gutenberg e-text of Francis Bacon's book The New Atlantis. The City of the Sun (La città del Sole Latin: Civitas Solis) is a philosophical work by the Italian Dominican philosopher Tommaso Campanella Project Gutenberg, abbreviated as PG, is a volunteer effort to Digitize, archive and distribute Cultural works
- Royal Society
- Los Horcones and Walden Two
- Voynich Manuscript/New Atlantis Comparison
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