The New Atlantis

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Not to be confused with New Atlantis magazine or The New Atalantis.

The New Atlantis
Author	Francis Bacon
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre(s)	Utopian novel
Publisher	no publisher given
Publication date	1626
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	46 pp
ISBN	NA

The New Atlantis is a utopian novel written by Francis Bacon in 1626.

1 Synopsis
2 Influences
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Synopsis

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The novel depicts a mythical land, Bensalem, which is discovered by the crew of an European ship after they are lost in the Pacific Ocean somewhere west of Peru. The European narrator recounts some of the island's customs and, most importantly, its state-sponsored scientific institution, Salomon's House.

The best and brightest of Bensalem's citizens attend a college called Salomon's House, in which scientific experiments are conducted in Baconian method in order to understand and conquer nature, and to apply the collected knowledge to the betterment of society.

[edit] Influences

The New Atlantis is widely thought to have influenced B.F. Skinner's 1948 Walden Two. Skinner was a great admirer of the scientific methodology to which Bacon adhered.^{[citation needed]}