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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
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Justus Lipsius
Lipsius, Justus
Justus Lipsius (Joest Lips) (1547-1606) was a Flemish humanist, philologist and an advocate for the
revival of Stoicism in the 16th century. In Book One, chapter 16 of the De Constantia (Book of Constancy) he unequivocally states his belief in the reality of Atlantis(a).*The original as well as an English translation are available online [1493].*
He also speculated on a migration of animals from Africa to America by way of Atlantis, which he considered to be a large landmass in the Atlantic, recorded in the correspondence of Charles Darwin(b).
The Justus Lipsius Building in Brussels has been the headquarters of the Council of the European Union since 1995.
(a) https://people.wku.edu/jan.garrett/lipsius1.htm
(b) https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jTON1MPaa6IC&pg=PA255&lpg=PA255&dq=%22Justus+Lipsius%22+Atlantis&source=bl&ots=Nutc7vkvz1&sig=mzLdl0Bip7i8ptylXmU0PUUTEF4&
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