The New Atlantis
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The New Atlantis
| Author | Francis Bacon |
|---|---|
| Published | 1627 |
| Recommended | 3 times |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Bacon’s unfinished utopian fable: shipwrecked sailors reach the island of Bensalem and find that its governing institution is Salomon’s House, a state-funded research college devoted to “the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.” The founding text of the idea that organised, publicly supported inquiry is a political institution in its own right. |
The New Atlantis
Where I heard about it
- Brendan McCord — on his Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List, in Renaissance and Enlightenment Political Thought, where the curriculum turns from the best regime to the project of mastering nature, March 2026. Full list: The Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List.
- University of Austin — assigned in Renaissance and Reformation on its Fall 2025 reading list, as the combined volume New Atlantis and the Great Instauration.
- On Patrick Collison’s Bookshelf — Patrick Collison’s catalog of the physical books he owns (unflagged). Saved in Kyle’s April 19th, 2020 Roam daily note.
About this edition
The University of Austin assigns the Weinberger edition, which pairs the fable with the preface to Bacon’s Instauratio Magna. Written around 1624 and published posthumously in 1627.
Connections
- Francis Bacon — the author.
- Utopia — the genre the fable works in.
- Science — Salomon’s House as the first design for an institution of organised inquiry.
- Institution Building — the book’s real subject.
- The Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List — the curriculum this came from.
- UATX Fall Reading List — assigned again in the University of Austin’s “Renaissance and Reformation” course, in a combined volume with The Great Instauration, beside On the Dignity of Man.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.