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New Atlantis is an incomplete utopian novel by Sir Francis Bacon, published posthumously in 1626.It appeared unheralded and tucked into the back of a longer work of natural history, Sylva Sylvarum (forest of materials).
New Atlantis was a micronation formed by Leicester Hemingway, the brother of Ernest Hemingway. [1] The "island", a 240 sq ft (22 m 2 ) bamboo raft off the coast of Jamaica, was established as a constitutional republic on July 4, 1964.
Salomon's House (or Solomon's House) is a fictional institution in Sir Francis Bacon's utopian work New Atlantis, published in English in 1777 [citation needed], years after Bacon's death. In this work, Bacon portrays a vision of the future of human discovery and knowledge.
The creation of Utopian and dystopian fictions was renewed after the Renaissance, most notably in Francis Bacon's New Atlantis (1627), the description of an ideal society that he located off the western coast of America. Thomas Heyrick (1649–1694) followed him with "The New Atlantis" (1687), a satirical poem in three parts.
The New Atlantis is a journal founded by the social conservative advocacy group the Ethics and Public Policy Center, now published by the Center for the Study of Technology and Society. [1] It covers topics about the social, ethical, political, and policy dimensions of modern science and technology . [ 2 ]
Despite being posthumously published in 1626, New Atlantis has an important place in Bacon's corpus. While his scientific treatises, such as The Advancement and Novum, are prescriptive in tone, advising how European thought must change through the adoption of the new scientific mindset, New Atlantis offers a look at what Bacon envisions as the ...
Hemingway also "wrote" a constitution, which was a copy of the U.S. Constitution with the words "New Atlantis" substituted for "United States". [8] New Atlantis' purpose was to generate money for oceanographic research by selling coins and stamps. [8] In 1966, the micronation was ravaged by a storm and then ransacked by fishermen. [3] [5] [8]
This research collaborates seismic data shown and discussed in the Atlantis: New Revelations 2-hour Special episode of Digging for the Truth, a History Channel documentary television series. Using reflection seismology , this documentary demonstrated techniques that what Sarmast interpreted to be artificial walls are natural tectonic landforms.