The New Atlantis is a utopian novel by Sir Francis Bacon, published in Latin in 1624 and in English in 1627. In this work, Bacon portrayed a vision of the future of human knowledge as well as his hopes and ideals for humanity. There is evidence to support that Atlantis was an evolved, ancient city whose ultimate corruption, plundering, pillaging, torturing, manipulating, controlling, poisoning, and abuse of powers in exploring the dark side, led to its extinction around 1050