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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 »
Garcia, Gregorio
Gregorio García (1556/61-1627) was a Spanish Dominican who worked in Peru for some years and in 1607 published Origen de los indios del Nuevo mundo e Indias occidentals[1400], in which he reviewed all the then current theories regarding the origins of native Americans.
Ronald Fritze notes in his Invented Knowledge[0709] that Garcia included the possibility that either America was Atlantis or the home of refugees from there. Andrés Gonzáles de Barcia (1673-1743), another Spanish historian, published an expanded edition of García’s book in 1729.
Atlantisforschung.de quotes(a) Thorwald C. Franke’s comments on Garcia “In 1607, he published his work Origen de los indios de el nuevo mundo, e Indias Occidentales, in which he argues in great detail that America was a part of Atlantis. The starting point is the critique of José de Acosta from 1590, who doubted the reality of Plato’s Atlantis. Point by point, García formulates in seven chapters on almost 50 pages his reasons why he considers this criticism to be unfounded, and unfolds an Atlantis hypothesis that is surprisingly detailed for this time.”