The New Atlantis - Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon

Category: Classic

Narrator: Don Hagen

Tags: Classic, Misc. Non-fiction, Literature

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, Platos description of the ancient Atlantean empire and Bacons New Atlantis both end suddenly in the middle of a sentence. In 1660 a mysterious person known only as R.H. Esquire attempted to complete Bacons unfinished book. There was never but one edition of New Atlantis Continued by R.H. Esquire., This extremely rare literary curiosity belongs in all collections of Elizabethan literature and is invaluable to students of Bacons writings and the Bacon-Shakespeare controversy., The new edition is reset for the convenience of the modern reader, but there are no changes except the modernization of spelling and punctuation. The discussion of heraldry is of great interest to those collecting emblem books and cryptographic material in general. Certain errors in pagination may be intentional and pages i