Francis Bacon · Science
In his unfinished fable New Atlantis, Bacon imagines Salomon’s House, a state-funded college of organised researchers, and so sketches the blueprint for the modern research institution.
New Atlantis (1627) describes Bensalem and its research college, Salomon’s House, which gathers knowledge through a division of labour for the relief of man’s estate.
Leads to bacon-legacy.
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