Philosophy

New Atlantis

by Francis Bacon

Sailors lost in the South Sea come upon Bensalem, an island unknown to the world, whose great institution, Salomon’s House, is a college for the study of nature. Bacon left it unfinished, and it was published in 1627, the year after his death. The founders of the Royal Society, thirty-three years later, took it as something like a plan.

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About 1 hr 5 min

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Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #2434. In the public domain in the United States.