ISBN: 9781481275033

Paperback, [PU: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform], The New Atlantis by Lord Bacon is one of the most important of the Utopian writings because it envisions the advancements in … mais…

Paperback, [PU: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform], The New Atlantis by Lord Bacon is one of the most important of the Utopian writings because it envisions the advancements in all branches of learning in the Western Hemisphere. Strangely enough, Plato's description of the ancient Atlantean empire and Bacon's New Atlantis both end suddenly in the middle of a sentence. Published in 1627, the year after the author's death by his literary executor, speculation is that Bacon wrote his story in 1623 or 1624, which would be after his fall from political power. Unlike many of his other major works, Bacon wrote "The New Atlantis" in English and then had it translated into Latin, an indication that he intended it for a wider, English-speaking audience. Bacon focuses on the duty of the state toward science, and his projections for state-sponsored research anticipate many advances in medicine and surgery, meteorology, and machinery. Although "The New Atlantis" is only a part of his plan for an ideal commonwealth, this work does represent Bacon's ideological beliefs. The inhabitants of Bensalem represent the ideal qualities of Bacon the statesman: generosity and enlightenment, dignity and splendor, piety and public spirit., Classics<

ISBN: 9781481275033

Bacon's literary executor, Dr. Rowley, published The New Atlantis in 1627, the year after the author's death. It seems to have been written about 1623, during that period of literary acti… mais…

Bacon's literary executor, Dr. Rowley, published The New Atlantis in 1627, the year after the author's death. It seems to have been written about 1623, during that period of literary activity which followed Bacon's political fall. None of Bacon's writings gives in short apace so vivid a picture of his tastes and aspirations as this fragment of the plan of an ideal commonwealth. The generosity and enlightenment, the dignity and splendor, the piety and public spirit, of the inhabitants of Bensalem represent the ideal qualities which Bacon the statesman desired rather than hoped to see characteristic of his own country; and in Solomon's House we have Bacon the scientist indulging without restriction his prophetic vision of the future of human knowledge. Sir Francis Bacon was one of the major political figures of his time, served in the court of Elizabeth I and ultimately became Lord Chancellor under James. A scholar, wit, lawyer and statesman, he wrote widely on politics, philosophy and science - declaring early in his career that 'I have taken all knowledge as my province'. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Literature>Literature>Literature, CreateSpace Publishing Core >1<

ISBN: 9781481275033

We sailed from Peru, (where we had continued for thespace of one whole year) for China and Japan, by the SouthSea; taking with us victuals for twelve months; and hadgood winds from the ea… mais…

We sailed from Peru, (where we had continued for thespace of one whole year) for China and Japan, by the SouthSea; taking with us victuals for twelve months; and hadgood winds from the east, though soft and weak, for fivemonths space, and more. But the wind came about, andsettled in the west for many days, so as we could make littleor no way, and were sometime in purpose to turn back.But then again there arose strong and great winds from thesouth, with a point east, which carried us up (for all thatwe could do) towards the north; by which time our victualsfailed us, though we had made good spare of them. So thatfinding ourselves, in the midst of the greatest wildernessof waters in the world, without victuals, we gave ourselvesfor lost men and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up ourhearts and voices to God above, who showeth his wondersin the deep, beseeching him of his mercy, that as in thebeginning he discovered the face of the deep, and broughtforth dry land, so he would now discover land to us, thatwe might not perish. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Classics>Coll Classics>Coll Classics, CreateSpace Publishing Core >1<

ISBN: 9781481275033

We sailed from Peru, (where we had continued for the space of one whole year) for China and Japan, by the South Sea; taking with us victuals for twelve months; and had good winds from the… mais…

We sailed from Peru, (where we had continued for the space of one whole year) for China and Japan, by the South Sea; taking with us victuals for twelve months; and had good winds from the east, though soft and weak, for five months space, and more. But the wind came about, and settled in the west for many days, so as we could make little or no way, and were sometime in purpose to turn back. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Literature>Literature>Literature, CreateSpace Publishing Core >1<