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2115463The New International Encyclopædia — New Atlantis, The

NEW ATLAN′TIS, The. The name given by Lord Bacon, in his allegory bearing the same title, to an island supposed to lie in the Southern Atlantic, on which the author is shipwrecked. There he finds an organized association for natural science and the arts. See Atlantis.