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October 2024 Hi to everyone I’m taking a break during the first two weeks of October, so there will be minimal activity on the site apart from the ongoing project of replacing broken links. Back Soon, Tony September 2023. Hi Atlantipedes, At present I am in Sardinia for a short visit. Later we […]Read More »
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Johann Christoph Becmann
Becmann. Johann Christoph
Johann Christoph Becmann (also Bekmann) (1641-1717) was a German university professor as well as a renowned librarian and historian, who taught Greek, history, politics and theology at the Brandenburg University in Frankfurt.
In his 1680 book, Historia Orbis Terrarum[1428]+, he expressed the view that Atlantis had been an island in the Atlantic (CapV.p110).
[1428]+ https://archive.org/details/historiaorbister00becm_0 (2nd edition) *