An A-Z Guide To The Search For Plato's Atlantis

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    NEWS October 2024

    OCTOBER 2024 The recent cyber attack on the Internet Archive is deplorable and can be reasonably compared with the repeated burning of the Great Library of Alexandria. I have used the Wayback Machine extensively, but, until the full extent of the permanent damage is clear, I am unable to assess its effect on Atlantipedia. At […]Read More »
  • Joining The Dots

    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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Lalande, Jérôme

Joseph-Jérôme Lalande (1732-1807) was a famous French astronomer. He reviewed Carli’s theory of the earth’s close encounter with a comet and concluded that if a comet had come within 3,000 miles of the earth it would have created a tidal wave 12,000 feet high covering many mountain tops as it moved around the world and inspiring the global deluge stories (and by extension the story of the flooding of Atlantis).

A lesser known fact about Lalande is that he used to eat spiders!