{"id":13460,"date":"2010-12-09T20:32:10","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T20:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=13460"},"modified":"2022-07-17T10:59:34","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T09:59:34","slug":"rafinesque-constantine-samuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/rafinesque-constantine-samuel\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Rafinesque_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-19349\" style=\"border: black 4px solid;\" title=\"Rafinesque_2\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Rafinesque_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"261\" \/><\/a>Constantine Samuel<\/strong><strong> Rafinesque (1783-1840) <\/strong>was born in Constantinople of mixed French\/German parentage. He was a polymath with advanced ideas in a range of disciplines with a special interest in pre-Columbian America. He was one of the first to partially decipher the Mayan numbering system. He did not exclude Atlantis from his wide-ranging studies and claimed that the various Atlantic islands, such as Azores, Canarias, Madeira etc., were part of Atlantis, he also included the Americas which he referred to as \u2018Megalantodos\u2019 or the \u2018Great Atlantis\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He also advocated that the 9,000 years that Plato\/Solon said had elapsed since the demise of Atlantis should be read as seasons of which there were three in the Egyptian solar year.<\/p>\n<p>He further claimed that there was a <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/gibraltar-landbridge-or-dam\/\">Gibraltar landbridge <\/a>that was destroyed 654 years after Noah\u2019s Flood. These claims are to be found on page 232 of Vol II of <em>The American Nations<\/em> published in 1836. This volume can now be read online<sup>(a)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.ie\/books?id=8GMFAAAAQAAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;source=gbs_ge_summary_r&amp;cad=0#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">The American nations; or, Outlines of their general history, ancient and modern &#8211; Constantine Samuel Rafinesque &#8211; Google Books<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Constantine Samuel Rafinesque (1783-1840) was born in Constantinople of mixed French\/German parentage. He was a polymath with advanced ideas in a range of disciplines with a special interest in pre-Columbian America. He was one of the first to partially decipher the Mayan numbering system. He did not exclude Atlantis from his wide-ranging studies and claimed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43,1818,28,174,34],"class_list":["post-13460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-america","tag-c-s-rafinesque","tag-canaries","tag-gibraltar-landbridge","tag-maya"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13460"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55354,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13460\/revisions\/55354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}