Abstract
This chapter show how the correction of the historical record regarding a universal flood and its causes in Bacon’s New Atlantis signals are entirely natural events that are avoidable precisely because they are knowable. Further I show that the principles of natural science that make remediation of such disasters possible belong to Bacon’s “first philosophy” and are thus able to be extended to the management of the human passions to avoid the “panic terrors” that are especially common in times of anxiety and adversity. Bacon’s thought in this regard helps us tie together the natural and human worlds and points the way toward the scientific and political means by which we might prevent or ameliorate not only the negative material effects of natural disaster, but also the concomitant negative psychological effects of disasters and pandemic outbreaks.
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