WISDOM OF THE ANCIENT

Francis Bacon's commentary on he famously called the new wisdom.

Was published in 1609 as The Wisdom of the Ancients. Bacon's mythography set out and hinted at the discovery of another world of new learning that confirmed the wisdom of the myths, intimated their connection with the world-changing methods and principles of the new sciences, and manifested ways in which ambitious innovation might go wrong, in keeping with his role as a founder of the Virginia Company.