The New Atlantis and the City of Th: Two Classic Utopias - Softcover

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9780486430829: The New Atlantis and the City of Th: Two Classic Utopias

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ISBN 10: 0486430820 ISBN 13: 9780486430829

Publisher: Dover Publications Inc., 2003

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Two authors from The Age of Reason and Enlightenment envisioned their own philosophical and intellectual utopias. Campanella was a student of logic and physics while Bacon focused on politics and philosophy. Despite the authors' differences in setting and treatment, each of these 17th-century classics reflect the idealism of an age.

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About the Author:

Francis Bacon (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, and author. He was the 1st Viscount St Alban. He served both as Attorney General and as Lord Chancellor of England. After his death, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution. Bacon has been called the father of empiricism. His works argued for the possibility of scientific knowledge based only upon inductive and careful observation of events in nature. Most importantly, he argued this could be achieved by use of a sceptical and methodical approach whereby scientists aim to avoid misleading themselves.

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Francis Bacon's The New Atlantis , published in 1627, and Campanella's The City of the Sun , which appeared four years earlier, are two of the many utopian schemes that proliferated in the 17th century. Bacon's is more of sketch, outlining the role the state should play in promoting science, while ignoring the ways such could be achieve, while the

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