Nova Atlantis vs Sylva sylvarvm: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Pre-Linnean works, Natural history, Utopias, Early works to 1800, Science
Nova Atlantis
New Atlantis is an incomplete utopian novel by Sir Francis Bacon, published posthumously in 1626. It appeared unheralded and tucked into the back of a longer work of natural history, Sylva sylvarum (forest of…
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Sylva sylvarvm
The father of Empiricism, the Elizabethan philosopher Francis Bacon was an advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution. His pioneering works argued for the possibility of…
The verdict
- Nova Atlantis is the quickest read — about 1 hours vs 4 for Sylva sylvarvm.
Scores by source
| Nova Atlantis | Sylva sylvarvm | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 2.9 (7) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (18) | — |
Reception
| Nova Atlantis | Sylva sylvarvm | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 18 | — |
| Editions | 84 | 23 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | — |
| Want to read | 20 | — |
| Written reviews | 1 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 3746 | — |
| Pages | 45 | 258 |