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    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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Belt, Thomas

Thomas Belt (1832-1878) was a British geologist and engineer. As a naturalist, he had a great interest in Ice Ace theory and travelled far and wide studying the effects of glaciation.

In his best-known work, The Naturalist in Nicaragua [1934], Belt touched briefly on the matter of Atlantis. The atlantisforschung.de website offers the following comments from Garrett P. Serviss in 1918, “Among the most interesting passages in Thomas Belt’s fascinating book, which is now a classic of scientific literature, are those in which he discusses the Atlantis legend, which he introduces with the tempting sentence: Why the fabulous Atlantis was actually a myth or was it that great continent in the Atlantic, exposed by a subsidence of the ocean, on which today’s West Indies were mountains that rose high above the level, and fertile plains, which are now covered by the sea?”(a)

(a) Thomas Belt – Atlantisforschung.de