@booklet {7037, title = {A Description of the famous Kingdome of Macaria; shewing its excellent Government: Wherein The Inhabitants live in great Prosperity, Health, and Happinesse; the King obeyed, the Nobles honoured; and all good men respected, Vice punished, and Vertue rewarded. An Example to other Nations: In a Dialogue between a Schollar and a Traveller}, year = {1641}, note = {

Rpt. with minor changes in spelling and punctuation in The Harleian Miscellany: A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, As Well in Manuscript as in Print. Found in the Late Earl of Oxford\’s Library, Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Notes. With a Table of Contents, and an Alphabetical Index 10 vols. (London: Ptd. For T. Osborne, 1744), 1: 564-69. Collection rpt. with the subtitle A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, As Well in Manuscript as in Print. Selected from the Library of Edward Harley, Second Earl of Oxford, Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Annotations, By William Oldys, and Some Additional Notes by Thomas Park (London: Ptd. for White and Cochrane, and John Murray, 1808-13), 1: 580-85; as A Facsimile Edition of Samuel Hartlib\’s 1641 Pamphlet A Description of the Famous Kingdome of Macaria. Ed. Richard H. Dillon. Sausalito, CA: {\'E}lan Under the direction of Wallace Kibbee Corte Madera, CA, 1961, with an unpaged four page \“Introduction\” by Dillon; in Samuel Hartlib and the Advancement of Learning. Ed. Charles Webster (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1970), 79-89; and in Charles Webster, Utopian Planning and the Puritan Revolution: Gabriel Plattes, Samuel Hartlib and \“Macaria\”. Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine Research Publications II (Oxford, Eng.: Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, 1979), 65-73 with annotations (74-89).

}, month = {1641}, publisher = {Ptd. for Francis Constable}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Eutopia. A short dialogue covering economic organization, religion, and some governmental organization. Monarchy with power in a grand or general council or parliament and five under-councils. Government revenues are mostly derived from the king\&$\#$39;s lands. Practical orientation. Includes a College of Experience similar to Bacon\&$\#$39;s Salomon\&$\#$39;s House in his New Atlantis (1627). Macaria means \"blessed\" or \"happy\". More used it for a country near Utopia.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {[Gabriel] [Plattes] (d. 1644)} }