the Baconians of Mountain View
One small cause of satisfaction for me in the past few years has been the decline of the use of the word...
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the supernova (concluded)
See part one here Thirty years after that supernova made its remarkable appearance in Earth’s skies, the Danish...
the supernova (1)
a superbright supernova Historians have long debated the role that King Charles IX played in the great and terrible St....
The New Atlantis (final installment)
One last thought about The New Atlantis. Here’s how the Father of Salomon’s House describes the various roles of...
The New Atlantis (4)
The third section of The New Atlantis concerns the narrator’s interview with the Father of Salomon’s House,...
The New Atlantis (3)
As I mentioned in an earlier post, Bacon’s unfinished The New Atlantis falls quite naturally into three parts. The...
The New Atlantis (2)
Reading the first few pages of The New Atlantis, I was surprised by its effusive piety. God is invoked at every turn,...
Bacon and the New Atlantis
I think I may continue, at least from time to time, this practice of book-blogging. I hope no one minds. But even if...