New Atlantis (Annotated) E-Book

Francis Bacon

• Herausgeber: BookRix
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014

Beschreibung

New Atlantis is a utopian novel by Sir Francis Bacon, published in Latin (as Nova Atlantis) in 1624 and in English in 1627. In this work, Bacon portrayed a vision of the future of human discovery and knowledge, expressing his aspirations and ideals for humankind. The novel depicts the creation of a utopian land where "generosity and enlightenment, dignity and splendour, piety and public spirit" are the commonly held qualities of the inhabitants of "Bensalem". The plan and organization of his ideal college, "Salomon's House" (or Solomon's House) envisioned the modern research university in both applied and pure sciences. The novel depicts a mythical island, Bensalem, which is discovered by the crew of a European ship after they are lost in the Pacific Ocean somewhere west of Peru. The minimal plot serves the gradual unfolding of the island, its customs, but most importantly, its state-sponsored scientific institution, Salomon's House, "which house or college ... is the very eye of this kingdom."

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Francis Bacon

New Atlantis (Annotated)

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The New Atlantis

by Francis Bacon

THE NEW ATLANTIS

BY

SIR FRANCIS BACON

UTOPIAN VOYAGE

Traveling from Peru to the East, the narrator and her companions seemed hopelessly lost in the South Seas, when they found an island and entered the harbor of one of its major cities. Its inhabitants were in the banks with the clubs, as if warning them not to land. A small boat approached them, leading to a government official who presentedthem with a scroll inscribed in Hebrew, Latin, Greek and Spanish, promising all the help you may need, but forbidding land. Noting with wonder and joy that the document bore the sign of the cross, travelers asked permission to bring their sick to earth fellow. Boaters merchandise offered in exchange for aid.

A few hours later, another citizen, obviously senior, invite the whole company to the earth, if they were Christians who swear like pirates and had not killed anyone in the last three months. They gave us rooms in the city, in the house of strangers, where special cells and medicines for sick crew members were provided.

The Governor of the House of Strangers, impressed by his gentlemanly behavior, invited them to stay in the city for six weeks and offered to answer questions about their country. I was delighted when they asked for the conversion of his homeland to Christianity. He said one night, years after Christ's ascension about twenty, a large cross on a column of light appearedon sea. The inhabitants of the city of Renfusa paddled towards him, only to find they could not get close to two hundred feet away. A wise man prayed for an explanation of the signal and was able to navigate. The cross disappeared, but found a chest containing the Old and New Testament, although the books are not written at the time, and a letter from San Bartolomé explainino that he was commanded in a vision or to send the ark to sea. The Testaments were themselves miraculous ; they could be understood by everyone, not matterwhat language, and through them the kingdom was.

In the days following the Governor told his people to know the languages ​​of Europe, however, remained unknown to its inhabitants. About three thousand years ago, he said, the voyage was widespread, and his country negotiated with Phoenicia, China, and the mighty kingdom of Atlantis, later called America. But in a hundred years, Atlantis was destroyed by the flood and only a few survived wild mountain abodes. The bulk of the New Atlantis ceased trading and its wise King Solomon, realizing that their land was self-sufficient forbade communication with foreigners. He set strict regulations on the entry of foreigners and only allows a select few to visit other nations.

In order to improve the welfare of their countryhe established Solomon's House, a group of scientists societyof appointed by the Hebrew king, to consider all "the works and creatures of God," and ordered that every twelve years, six Fellows House should go to collect information from other countries and bring back " books, instruments and models of all kinds. " Governor added that he was not allowed to say how these men hide their identity while traveling.