Bacon’s New Atlantis converted scattered utilitarian prefaces into a state program of science

Evidence

What had been merely prefaces and statements advocating a utilitarian concept of progress in these sixteenth-century treatises became a whole program and ideology in the utopian thought of Francis Bacon. In the New Atlantis, progress was placed in the hands of a group of scientists and technicians who studied nature altered by “the mechanical arts” and “the hand of man” that her secrets might be utilized to benefit society. — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 715

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Bacon’s science reinforced early capitalism’s growth and progress tendencies — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology,…, 740; Bacon explicitly outlined engineering artificial plant and animal species — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology,…, 726; Bacon imagined rule by scientists deciding unaccountably what knowledge to conceal — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology,…, 716 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Bacon explicitly outlined engineering artificial plant and animal species #exemplifies (0.80) — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 726
• Bacon imagined rule by scientists deciding unaccountably what knowledge to conceal #expands (0.80) — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 716
• Bacon’s science reinforced early capitalism’s growth and progress tendencies #expands (0.78) — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 740
• Bacon promised that mechanical arts would conquer and subdue nature #corroborates (0.72) — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 683