The New Atlantis

by Francis Bacon

Overview

Bacon's The New Atlantis was written in the author's last years. In this utopian novel about a mythical land called Bensalem, the inhabitants live happily with sciences and with generosity and enlightenment, dignity and splendor, piety and public spirit. These were the ideal qualities which Bacon wanted to see in 17th century England.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788562022357
Publisher:	Iap - Information Age Pub. Inc.
Publication date:	01/20/2009
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	66
Sales rank:	1,107,659
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.14(d)

About the Author

Francis Bacon (1561-1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Although his political career ended in disgrace, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution.
Bacon has been called the creator of empiricism. His works established and popularized inductive methodologies for scientific inquiry, often called the Baconian method, or simply the scientific method. His demand for a planned procedure of investigating all things natural marked a new turn in the rhetorical and theoretical framework for science, much of which still surrounds conceptions of proper methodology today.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Date of the New Atlantis; Connexion of the New Atlantis with Bacon's philosophical reform; Bacon's aim and art in the New Atlantis; The influence of the New Atlantis; Bacon's grammar as exemplified in the New Atlantis; Text; Notes; Glossary; Index of proper names.