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    NEWS September 2023

    September 2023. Hi Atlantipedes, At present I am in Sardinia for a short visit. Later we move to Sicily and Malta. The trip is purely vacational. Unfortunately, I am writing this in a dreadful apartment, sitting on a bed, with access to just one useable socket and a small Notebook. Consequently, I possibly will not […]Read More »
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    Joining The Dots

    I have now published my new book, Joining The Dots, which offers a fresh look at the Atlantis mystery. I have addressed the critical questions of when, where and who, using Plato’s own words, tempered with some critical thinking and a modicum of common sense.Read More »
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Jean-Marcel Cadet

Cadet, Jean-Marcel

Jean-Marcel Cadet (1751-1835) was French mineralogist, who was Inspector of Mines on Corsica for 25 years. He wrote a number of papers and books on the geology of the island. Included in his output was Memoire sur les jaspes et autres pierres precieuses de l’isle de Corse(a), published in 1785, in which he also reviewed Plato’s account of Atlantis in his Critias and Timaeus and concluded that Atlantis had been situated in the Atlantic.

James Bramwell[0184.137]  claims that Cadet was the first to express the view that Atlantis had been an island in the Atlantic and that the Canaries and the Azores were its remnants.

My previous entry under the name of Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt was completely incorrect, for which I apologise.

(a)  https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=X69gAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=Me%CC%81moire+sur+les+jaspes+et+autres+pierres+pre%CC%81cieuses+de+l’isle+de+Corse&source=bl&ots=wzGVKT4IHa&sig=pSzUhJ3MgY78tGxXEEXo9OAi8EI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjDurLt1ILNAhWKwBQKHYtIDacQ6AEILjAC#v=onepage&q=Me%CC%81moire%20sur%20les%20jaspes%20et%20autres%20pierres%20pre%CC%81cieuses%20de%20l’isle%20de%20Corse&f=false