By Anthony J. Funari (auth.)
This booklet explores the resistance of 3 English poets to Francis Bacon's venture to revive humanity to Adamic mastery over nature, relocating past a dialogue of the strain among Bacon and those poetic voices to indicate theywere additionally debating the narrative of humanity's highbrow path.
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From one chance occasion, the Utopians were able to construct a near-complete picture of Roman technological achievements. The Bensalemite project of systematically accumulating other cultures’ scientific knowledge and technological achievements is in stark contrast to this moment in Utopia. ”36 King Solamona’s decree establishing the 12-year cycle of expeditions by the Brethren of Salomon’s House to other countries exemplifies Bacon’s vision of a structured scientific program. The Brethren’s traveling and gathering scientific knowledge ties together Bacon’s call to organize a cataloging of scientific experiments and the metaphor he uses for humanity’s scientific advancement, the expanding exploration of the new world.
Bacon depicts a culture where intellectual energies are not distracted by scholastic disputation and fruitless battles over words, but are engaged in a materially productive encounter with the world, where the domestic space has been completely subordinated to the state, and where religious polemics and strife do not exist. ” Rawley accurately captures the cautious optimism that pervades the text. 29 While his scientific treatises, such as The Advancement and Novum, are prescriptive in tone, advising how European thought must change through adoption of the new scientific mindset, New Atlantis offers a look at what Bacon envisions as the ultimate fruition of his instauration.
Not only does obtaining “natural harmony,” according to Bacon, necessitate human intervention, but Nature cannot be conceived of as compliant in the project to restore such harmony. ”17 As opposed to “approaching [Nature] with due respect” so that she might “condescend” to facilitate the production of knowledge, Bacon adopts a new trope that realizes his method as overcoming Nature’s will. While premodern natural philosophy, as Bacon sees it, accepted the image Nature offers to the senses, the new scientist will reject the terms on which Nature presents itself.