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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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Sir Daniel Wilson
Lyell, Charles
Charles Lyell (1797-1875) was British lawyer and the leading geologist of his day. He 
was a enthusiastic proponent of uniformitarianism as expressed in his best known book, Principles of Geology. Daniel Wilson quoted Lyell as concluding that “the entire evidence is adverse to the idea that the Canaries, the Madeiras, and the Azores, are surviving fragments of a vast submerged island, or continuous area of the adjacent continent.” From the same book, R.E. Anderson quotes[1486] Lyell as confessing a temptation to ”accept the theory of an Atlantis island in the northern Atlantic” [1472.141]. He expressed similar sentiments in his Elements of Geology [2090.363].
This view was contradicted by later geologists in the 19th and early 20th centuries, who even suggested landbridges across the Atlantic or a series of islands offering stepping-stones between the Old World and the Americas. Today, supporters of an Atlantic Atlantis offer less dramatic theories suggesting, the Canaries, Azores or Madeiras are remnants of Plato’s Island.
Principles of Geology – Available online: https://wallace-online.org/converted/pdf/1835_Lyell_WS2.1.pdf (Fourth Edition vol 1, 1835) (4 volumes, change pdf number) *
Elements of Geology – Available online: Elements of geology : Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive *
Wilson, Sir Daniel
Sir Daniel Wilson (1816-1892) was a former president of the University of Toronto. He produced 
a book[584] at the end of the 19th century that investigated the origins of the Native American peoples. He seems to have been convinced that there were frequent contacts between the Old World and the Americas, as far back as the time of the Phoenicians, and that these contacts brought news of America back to Europe, providing some of the basis for Plato’s description of Atlantis.
His book can be read(a) or downloaded(b) online.
(a) https://www.canadiana.org/ECO/mtq?doc=41556
(b) https://archive.org/details/lostatlantisothe00sird