Louis Guillaume Figuier (1819-1894) was a French doctor of medicine who took to journalism, specialising in the popularisation of the scientific advances of the 19th century. He wrote many books that generally received criticism from the scientific establishment, but were very popular with the reading public. Figuier, in one of his books[296] was the first, in 1872, to link the explosion of Thera with Plato’s Atlantis.
Auguste Nicaise adopted this idea a few years later, following the eruption of Krakatoa.
