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January 2, 2024

Francis Bacon’s Science-Fictional Jewish Matchmaker

The Old Testament and the New Atlantis.

While many individuals contributed to the birth of modern science, it was the English philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon (1561–1626) above all who formed our ideas of scientific and technological progress. Louise Liebeskind suggests a compelling new interpretation of Bacon’s novel New Atlantis, which imagines shipwrecked European sailors discovering an Edenic realm with advanced technology and moral purity. It’s worth focusing on the role Jews and the Hebrew Bible play in this book:

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