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Johannes A. Niederhauser
Esoterica #1 Francis Bacon's "New Atlantis"
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Esoterica #1 Francis Bacon's "New Atlantis"

One of the strangest Utopias of Early Modernity

Francis Bacons’s New Atlantis is a most astounding utopian fable. Published shortly after his death by his former chaplain William Rawley Bacon here lays out the blueprint for the Royal Society — and in fact for the British Empire with its vast spy network. Not only that though. The New Atlantis, albeit unfinished, is a deeply significant fable for it a…

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