Ludwig Zajdler was a Polish astronomer who published Atlantyda in Warsaw in 1963. In 1966 it was translated into Russian by leading atlantologist Nicolai Zhirov. It is widely quoted on the Internet that the 3rd Polish 1972 edition had a print run of 30,000 copies, which is quite spectacular. However, this report goes on to claim that this number equals the total number of all books on Atlantis published in the USA and UK during the previous twenty years, which has to be a gross understatement.
Zajdler divided his book into three sections, Atlantis in myth, Atlantis in history and the date and cause of its demise. The author believed that there was evidence of a collision between the Earth and Halley’s Comet in 9570 BC.
