Bacon's The New Atlantis was written in the author's last years. In this utopian novel about a mythical land called Bensalem, the inhabitants live happily with sciences and with generosity and enlightenment, dignity and splendor, piety and public spirit. These were the ideal qualities which Bacon wanted to see in 17th century England.

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Francis Bacon (1561 1626), the English philosopher, statesman and jurist, is best known for developing the empiricist method which forms the basis of modern science. Bacon's writings concentrated on philosophy and judicial reform. His most significant work is the Instauratio Magna comprising two parts The Advancement of Learning and the Novum Organum. The first part is noteworthy as the first major philosophical work published in English (1605). James Spedding (1808 81) and his co-editors arranged this fourteen-volume edition, published in London between 1857 and 1874, not in chronological...

Francis Bacon (1561 1626), the English philosopher, statesman and jurist, is best known for developing the empiricist method which forms the basis of modern science. Bacon's writings concentrated on philosophy and judicial reform. His most significant work is the Instauratio Magna comprising two parts The Advancement of Learning and the Novum Organum. The first part is noteworthy as the first major philosophical work published in English (1605). James Spedding (1808 81) and his co-editors arranged this fourteen-volume edition, published in London between 1857 and 1874, not in chronological...

Francis Bacon (1561 1626), the English philosopher, statesman and jurist, is best known for developing the empiricist method which forms the basis of modern science. Bacon's writings concentrated on philosophy and judicial reform. His most significant work is the Instauratio Magna comprising two parts The Advancement of Learning and the Novum Organum. The first part is noteworthy as the first major philosophical work published in English (1605). James Spedding (1808 81) and his co-editors arranged this fourteen-volume edition, published in London between 1857 and 1874, not in chronological...

Francis Bacon (1561 1626), the English philosopher, statesman and jurist, is best known for developing the empiricist method which forms the basis of modern science. Bacon's writings concentrated on philosophy and judicial reform. His most significant work is the Instauratio Magna comprising two parts The Advancement of Learning and the Novum Organum. The first part is noteworthy as the first major philosophical work published in English (1605). James Spedding (1808 81) and his co-editors arranged this fourteen-volume edition, published in London between 1857 and 1874, not in chronological...

Francis Bacon (1561 1626), the English philosopher, statesman and jurist, is best known for developing the empiricist method which forms the basis of modern science. Bacon's writings concentrated on philosophy and judicial reform. His most significant work is the Instauratio Magna comprising two parts The Advancement of Learning and the Novum Organum. The first part is noteworthy as the first major philosophical work published in English (1605). James Spedding (1808 81) and his co-editors arranged this fourteen-volume edition, published in London between 1857 and 1874, not in chronological...