New Atlantis

The essays are best known, but the New Atlantis is the book that you will best like to read, for it is something of a story, and of it I will tell you a little in the next chapter.

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The heads of Plato's city are metaphysicians, who regulate the welfare of the people by abstract doctrines established once for all; while the most important feature in the New Atlantis is the college of scientific investigators, who are always discovering new truths which may alter the conditions of life.

The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth 1894

In a beautiful, though not very generally read fragment of his, called the New Atlantis, a voyage to an imaginary island, he has imagined a university, or rather royal society, under the name of Solomon's House, or the College of the Six Days 'Works; and among the various buildings appropriated to this institution, he describes a gallery destined to contain the statues of inventors.

James Watt Andrew Carnegie 1877

The 'New Atlantis' is only a fragment, and far inferior in merit to the

The Republic 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

The 'City of the Sun' written by Campanella (1568-1639), a Dominican friar, several years after the 'New Atlantis' of Bacon, has many resemblances to the Republic of Plato.

The Republic 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

But it has little or no charm of style, and falls very far short of the 'New Atlantis' of Bacon, and still more of the 'Utopia' of Sir Thomas More.

The Republic 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

Bacon's college, in his "New Atlantis," moved the risibles of fat-witted Oxford.

Reform and Politics, Part 2, from Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

Bacon's college, in his "New Atlantis," moved the risibles of fat-witted Oxford.

The Conflict with Slavery and Others, Complete, Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

Bacon's college, in his "New Atlantis," moved the risibles of fat-witted Oxford.

The Complete Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

Francis Bacon's "New Atlantis," first written in Latin, was published in

Ideal Commonwealths Tommaso Campanella 1603