Snider-Pellegrini, Antonio

Antonio Snider–Pellegrini (1802-1885), was a French geographer, who, in 1858^[555], offered a theory^(a) that has been seen as a precursor to that of Alfred Wegner’s concept of Continental Drift, which developed into today’s widely accepted model of plate tectonics. It also appears that he,>along with Roberto Montovani^(c),<thought that the Earth had been much smaller at the time of the biblical Genesis^(c), anticipating the Expanding Earth Hypothesis!

>Snider-Pellegrini published his theories in La Création et ses mystères dévoilés^[555], where he is credited with creating the first representation of the Americas joined to Europe and Africa. This is shown below with the ‘before’ image marked ‘Atlantide’ where Brazil is.< 

However, it is claimed that as early as 1620, Francis Bacon was one of the first to note the close fit between eastern South America and the west coast of Africa. Half a century ago, this attribution was heavily criticised by G. L. Herries Davies^(b), who claimed that the idea came from a ”careless reading of the text.”

Snider-Pellegrini also added the suggestion that Brazil had been the location of Atlantis.

^(a) https://web.archive.org/web/20200913123630/https://www.xearththeory.com/

^(b) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/238388608_Francis_Bacon_and_Continental_Drift

^(c) https://www.annalsofgeophysics.eu/index.php/annals/article/view/4622