1. 1952.The Quest for Utopia298 J. Max Patrick and Glenn Negley (eds), (College Park, MD, McGrath Publishing,), p.
2. 1972.New Atlantis140–63. There is a long tradition in Bacon criticism of reading Bensalem and Salomon's House as being idealised, to portray the potential benefits of natural philosophy. For example, Moody E. Prior and Harvey Wheeler saw as a representation of the scientific society Bacon wanted to be introduced in England (Moody E. Prior, ‘Bacon's Man of Science’, in Brian Vickers (ed.),Essential Articles for the Study of Francis Bacon(London, Sidgwick & Jackson,), pp.—, p. 159; Harvey Wheeler, ‘Francis Bacon'sNew Atlantis:The “Mould” of a Lawfinding Commonwealth’, in William A. Sessions (ed.),Francis Bacon's Legacy of Texts(New York, AMS Press, 1990), pp. 291–310, p. 291). John Steadman and J. R Zetterberg have also seen Salomon's House as Bacon's ideal scientific community (John Steadman, ‘Beyond Hercules: Bacon and the scientist as hero’,Studies in the Literary Imagination, 4 (1971), 1–47; J. P. Zetterberg, ‘Echoes of Nature in Salomon's House’,Journal of the History of Ideas, 43 (1982), 179–92). W H. G. Armytage readNew Atlantisas demonstrating how science could lead men to God (W. H. G. Armytage, ‘The Early Utopists and Science in England’,Annals of Science, 12 (1956), 247–54, 249), whilst David C. Innes has claimed that Bensalem is ‘the City of God come down to earth’, representing the hope Bacon believed science offered to humanity (David C. Innes, ‘Bacon'sNew Atlantis:The Christian Hope and the Modern Hope’,Interpretation, 22 (1994), 3–37, 33. There is now widespread consensus that Salomon's House is Bacon's ideal scientific institution. For example, Christopher Kendrick has recently argued that ‘Francis Bacon's obsession was to refashion intellectual production, and no one doubts thatThe New Atlantis(1626) came into existence as propaganda for the refashioning’ ('The Imperial Laboratory: Discovering Forms inThe New Atlantis’, English Literary History, 70 (2003), 1021–42, 1021).
3. Leary , John E. Jr. 1994.Francis Bacon and the Politics of Science248–71. (Ames, Iowa State University Press,), p.; Rose-Mary Sargent, ‘Bacon as an advocate for cooperative scientific research’, in Markku Peltonen (ed.),The Cambridge Companion to Bacon(Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 146- p. 146