1. Francis Bacon -- rival to Shakespeare, in more ways than one
1. How is Bacon new?
   1. *Novum Organum--New Compendium of Sciences--Aristotle's "Old Organon"
1. Great Instauration [Contains Novum Organon]--renewal, renovation, restoration=rebirith=renaissance
2. Future, Enlightenment oriented--Kritik; scepticism: Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume
3. Nature; science; technology; power--Loren Eiseley--the Man who saw through time--18th century; Polytechnic
1. Inventors
2. Man being the interpreter of nature--Novum Organum 1
4. Non-humanist--words and names: Novum Organum 59-60--41"It is false asssertion that the sense of man is the measure of all things"
5. Iconoclasm--destroying Idols=Reformation
1. New Atlantis: hate all impostures and lies...p.8
2. Idea of Superstition
1. Caliban
3. Essay "on Truth"
4. Seventeenth century epistemology--scepticism--Descartes, Leibnitz, Spinoza
6. Contrast to Apocalyptic/Imaginative/Visionary elements in The Tempest --idols of the Theatre [aphorism 44]
   1. But Bacon, like Newton and other early scientists also practised magic, numerology, astrology and cabbalism
2. How is Bacon old?
1. Rhetorical; classical and biblical allusion--enter heaven like a little child--Novum Org 68, allusion to Mark 10:15, Luke 18:17
2. Use of language in Matthew 13
3. Emblematic and figurative--pillars of Hercules
3. New Atlantis--relation to Thomas More--new World; America, the New Found land; land of angels
1. Shipwreck, deliverance--picture of salvation in heaven--island of new beginnings; improvement and progress
2. Christian people--
3. Lawgiver=Utopus, Salomon, College of Six Day's work=Nature--see Milton on Six Days Work
1. Inventors
2. Researchers
4. Novum Organum
1. Delineate the Four Idols
2. Idols of the Tribe
5. Of Truth...Of Superstition
1. Dialectical structure: state opposite view and then rebut.
1. Begin with Bible