...Solomon's House, or the College of the Six Days' Works," is founded by the people of the New Atlantis " for the interpreting of nature, and the producing...great and marvellous works for the benefit of men." Whatever exception may be taken to details, the idea in itself is fine and fruitful, and eminently...

...New Atlantis, a voyage to an imaginary island, he has imagined a university, or rather royal society, under the name of Solomon's House, or the College of the Six Days' Works; and among the various buildings appropriated to this institution, he describes a gallery...

...Critias, and describing 1813 especially an institution "for the interpreting of nature," as Rawley says, " and the producing of great and marvellous works for the benefit of men. . . . His Lordship thought also in this present fable to have composed a frame of laws, or of the best...

...EDITION OF THE " SYLVA SYLVARUM," 1627 The introduction "To the Reader" by Rawley runs as follows : — " This fable my lord devised, to the end that hee might...marvellous works for the benefit of men ; under the name of Salomons House, or the College of the Six Dayes Works. And even so farre his lordship hath proceeded...

...advertisement to the English version, "my lord devised to the end that he might exhibit therein a model or description of a college, instituted for the interpreting...marvellous works for the benefit of men, under the name of Saloman's House, or the College of the Six Days' Works." This, "the noblest institute, we think, that...

...Fable my Lord devised to the end that He might exhibite therein a Modell or Description of a Colledge instituted for the Interpreting of Nature and the Producing of Great and Marveilous Works for the Benefit of Men : under the name of Salomon's House, or the Colledge of the...

...first editor, by way of preface, " my Lord devised, to the end that he might exhibit therein a model or description of a college instituted for the interpreting of nature and the production of great and marvellous works for the benefit of men, under the name of Salomon's House,...

...the Six Days' Works," which is a sort of anticipation of the Royal Society and similarly destined to "the producing of great and marvellous works for the benefit of men." In its turrets for observing depth and height, and in its dissecting and vivisecting halls, audacious...

...the Six Days' Works," which is a sort of anticipation of the Royal Society and similarly destined to "the producing of great and marvellous works for the benefit of men." In its turrets for observing depth and height, and in its dissecting and vivisecting halls, audacious...

...a great university of research, called "Solomon's House," to be founded by the people of the island "for the interpreting of nature and the producing of great and marvellous works for the benefit of man." Upon this hint the Royal Society was later established. Among the inventions anticipated by Bacon's...