{"id":1841,"date":"2010-05-27T17:50:24","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T17:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wilson-sir-daniel\/"},"modified":"2018-07-01T09:04:06","modified_gmt":"2018-07-01T08:04:06","slug":"wilson-sir-daniel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wilson-sir-daniel\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilson, Sir Daniel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sir Daniel<\/strong><strong> W<\/strong><strong>ilson<\/strong> <strong>(1816-1892)<\/strong> was a former president of the University of Toronto. He produced <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Sir-Daniel-Wilson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-27369\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Sir-Daniel-Wilson.jpg\" alt=\"Sir Daniel Wilson\" width=\"160\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a>a book<sup>[<\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/w-z\/\">584<\/a><\/sup><sup>]<\/sup> at the end of the 19<sup>th<\/sup> 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/phoenicians\/\">Phoenicians<\/a>,\u00a0and that these contacts brought news of America back to Europe, providing some of the basis for Plato\u2019s description of Atlantis.<\/p>\n<p>His book can be read<sup>(a) <\/sup>or downloaded<sup>(b)<\/sup> online.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(<\/sup><sup>a<\/sup><sup>)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canadiana.org\/ECO\/mtq?doc=41556\">https:\/\/www.canadiana.org\/ECO\/mtq?doc=41556<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(b)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/lostatlantisothe00sird\">https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/lostatlantisothe00sird<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&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":[90,1006],"class_list":["post-1841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-phoenicians","tag-sir-daniel-wilson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841","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=1841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}