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Two authors from The Age of Reason and Enlightenment, in keeping with the spirit of their times, envisioned their own philosophical and intellectual utopias. Tomasso Campanella, a Calabrian monk, published The City of the Sun in 1623, and Francis Bacon"s The New Atlantis appeared in 1627. Campanella was a student of logic and physics who formulated the first scientifically based socialistic system--one that furnished a model for subsequent ideal communities. Bacon focused on politics and philosophy, emphasizing the duty of the state toward science. Despite the authors" differences in setting and treatment, each of these seventeenth-century classics mirrors the period"s prevailing thought, reflecting the idealism of an age and its revolutionary trends in philosophy.
Download DescriptionWe sailed from Peru, (where we had continued for the space of one whole year) for China and Japan, by the South Sea; takingwith us victuals for twelve months; and had good winds from the east, though soft and weak, for five months space, and more. But the wind came about, and settled in the west for many days, so as we could make little or no way, and were sometime in purpose to turn back. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге The New Atlantis and The City of the Sun : Two Classic Utopias (Francis Bacon)