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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 »
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Hooke, Robert
Robert Hooke (1635-1703) was an English polymath, who at one time was an assistant to Robert Boyle, the first modern chemist. His Cutlerian Lectures to the Royal Society were published posthumously in 1705 [1764]+. In his Discourse of Earthquakes, he frequently mentions Atlantis, about which he was sympathetic to its existence, placing it in the Atlantic, with islands such as the Canaries as its remnants.
>It is also worth noting that Hooke was one of the earliest to suggest the idea of pole shift(a).<