THEACADEMYAS VIEWED BY FRANCIS BACON

Abstract

Modern Academies, and implicitly, contemporary ones are the result of the ideas of the Renaissance but equally of the views of such great thinkers such as Francis Bacon (1561‐1629) and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz (1646‐1716). For this reason, in discussing the missions and activities of present day Academies, it is interesting to go to the roots and to recall Bacon's views on an ideal Academy, named by him the College of Six Days’ Work, the Solomon's House, or the Noblest Foundation. This text, related to the description of the activities of the Solomon's House, is derived from a Twentieth Century edition published within Macmillan's English Classics Collection, Macmillan and Co., Limited, St. Martin's Street, London (Printed in the United Kingdom by Robert Maclehose and Co., Ltd., the University Press, Glasgow), existing in the Library of the Romanian Academy (1‐236472).