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New Atlantis Hardcover – September 10, 2010

by Francis Bacon (Author)

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Hardcover: 52 pages
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC (September 10, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1169660339
ISBN-13: 978-1169660335
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 0.2 x 11 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 32 customer reviews
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Elden

Fascinating

September 25, 2013

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Anything Francis Bacon writes is fascinating. The New Atlantis is actually a description of what we are now living in. Bacon describes this quite clearly in this writing of a journey he takes. Well worth the time to read the content. Bacon's style captures a descriptive element that shows he had a far reaching insight into the future. He lived in the sixteenth century and could see the twenty-first century.

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A Lasting Utopian Classic

April 18, 2012

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My expectations were low for the Kindle version of Francis Bacon's "The New Atlantis"--it was free after all--but there is a reason this utopian tale is still in print almost 400 years after it was first published. Bacon offers a compelling look at how religion and science can build a strong society. While "New Atlantis" is perhaps not the best introduction to Bacon and his thinking, it is very accessible to modern day readers, most of whom will be able to follow a fictional sailor's account of his encounter with the fictional island of Bensalem. The text is very readable though a bit large in the Kindle edition.

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February 6, 2017

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interesting

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A journey through the mists of time.

January 30, 2017

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This is a fascinating insight into one of the greatest literary minds of all time. Shakespearean one might say ;)

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December 6, 2017

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I love the book

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Two visions of The Good Life

March 28, 2005

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This is a very short text: 85pp for the two pieces, plus an intro. Each piece gives a brief description of one thinker's ideal world, a Utopia of a sort. This book is strengthened by presenting two such different views, casting them into sharp contrast.

The first, by Bacon, makes much of pomp, ceremony, and fine accoutrements. He starts by describing the wonderful pageant put out for any man whose living descendants exceed thirty in number. He is paraded among and served by his issue, and granted gifts by the benevolent ruler. At this point - only at this point - is a woman of the realm mentioned. His wife, should she have survived such a feat of childbearing, is to be presented as well, in a carriage, tightly enclosed. A featureless box, the best to which a woman might aspire. (Bacon goes out of his way to disparage More's Utopia, in an amusing aside.)

The remainder of the story details the alchemical feats and workshops of the land. They interested Bacon much the way a candy store might interest a child, with no thought as to how they might be provisioned or staffed. Although the many labs are of interest to today's technologist, the country's means of feeding itself and its voracious researchers remains unsaid.

Campanella's "City of the Sun" is a Utopia of very different character. Above all, it focusses its energies on war more than any other city since Sparta. He demands training in arms for men and women both from the earliest age on, though women would enter combat only in final resort. Even the infirm are put to service however they may serve: the lame can watch and guard, the blind can work in some crafts, and so on. Women are expected to participate in industry, too, except in the woodworkers' and armorers' trades. This city is surprisingly free in religion - Jews are tolerated, if not too jewish, as well as Brahmins and others who acknowledge a soul. Hey, in those days, it was radical.

Both authors express ideas that repulse a modern mind. Even Campanella's enlightened treatment of women and religious minorities sounds brutal, until considered in the context of his time. Bacon's blinkered self-involvement would barely be worth a chuckle, until one considers his influence on history.

It's not formal, but it's a way to view history: what is it that each age most wanted itself to be? What views existed, and what views have survived? And how did the writers of each age differ from the man in the street, or more likely the man behind the plow?

//wiredwierd

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March 10, 2015

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This is a classic, and since I was playing the part of Sir Francis Bacon at a "Night of the Notables" meeting of great philosophers, this was one of my top choices for my research, along with the complete essays. Greatly enjoyed the book and all the philosophical concepts that are woven into the story.

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October 25, 2016

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Interesting early utopian novel.

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