Diegetyczne uspójnienie systemu nauk. O Nowej Atlantydzie Francisa Bacona

Abstract

The article interprets New Atlantis by Francis Bacon and reads it as a hypertext of Instauratio Magna, the project of restoration of sciences, which the philosopher failed to carry out fully. The author seeks to discover the interrelations between the discursive, rhetorical and literary modes of writing that shaped the early stages of modern science. In his opinion, empirical science does not establish its starting point only with its own new instruments, but it also deploys contemporary patterns of narrative fiction (for example, the modal frame of travel story) and rhetorical probability (also allegory). The power of this composite renders its own origin coherent.