A utopian society, designed by a philosopher. ( )

Seminal; of its time and a model for subsequent utopian writing. ( )

francis bacon, new atlantis (a public domain book, 1627): em sobre jardins bacon descreve o que ele considera ser um jardim não apenas adequado, mas apropriado e bom. a aparente arbitrariedade é equilibrada com pitadas de justificativas de época. em nova atlântida, a preocupação é a descrição de uma sociedade utópica, propondo um ideal de universidade (solomon’s house), introduzindo uma forma (científico-empírica) de conhecer o mundo como um ideal a ser buscado. em muitos casos, a casa de salomão é colocada acima do próprio estado, ao mesmo tempo que o serve com o que ela considera justo, apropriado e benéfico (escondendo descobertas que poderiam danificar uma ordem social bem estabelecida, por exemplo).

we have also sound-houses, where we practise and demonstrate all sounds, and their generation. we have harmonies which you have not, of quarter-sounds, and lesser slides of sounds ( )

An unfinished fragment of a utopian novel. Sailors discover a highly advanced christian society that wishes to keep its existence a secret from the outside world. There is some proto-scifi concerning the technology possessed by the island thats interesting given the age of the story, but overall not much to write home about. ( )

In the south seas our narrator comes to an nation unknown to Europe but fully informed about the past and present of all the worlds lands. This is a Christian nation by miraculous delivery of the gospels 20yrs after the Crucifixion which generously allows Jews and a few others to live there. Mostly tell rather than show, the narrator 'repeats' reports about the chastity of the people and the institutionalized pursuit knowledge and practical invention.
Women however are kept firmly in the background, standing at the edges of a mans feast or sequestered in a viewing room, listed as servants and attendants of scholars, but hardly elsewhere. "Every sperm is sacred" played in my head during the Feast of the Family report. I'm inclined to think Francis Bacon a hypocritical prig. ( )