At age 23, Bacon became a member of the English Parliament. However, it was not until after the death of Queen Elizabeth in 1603 that he was appointed Attorney General and, in 1618, Lord Chancellor of England. Three years later, he was found guilty of accepting bribes, and he lost all political power; he was banished from the court and was forced to sell his London mansion. The Essays appeared in 1597, and his first book, The Advancement of Learning, was published in 1605. In 1610, he wrote New Atlantis, concerning the cooperative nature of scientific research. Novum Organum was published in 1620. After his impeachment, Bacon wrote two works on natural history: Historia Ventorum, 1622; and
Historia Vitae et Mortis, 1623. Bacon died in 1626, after catching a cold whilst experimenting on stuffing a dead chicken with snow.
