{"id":18673,"date":"2012-11-05T07:23:21","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T07:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=18673"},"modified":"2026-02-13T15:51:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T15:51:52","slug":"gosselin-francois-pascal-joseph-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/gosselin-francois-pascal-joseph-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Gosselin, Fran\u00e7ois-Pascal-Joseph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Fran\u00e7ois-Pascal-Joseph<\/strong><strong> Gosselin (1751-1830) <\/strong>was a French librarian and geographer. In 1813 he published <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Gosselin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-26836\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Gosselin.jpg\" alt=\"Gosselin\" width=\"220\" height=\"269\" \/><\/a>the four-volume, <em>Recherches sur la g\u00e9ographie syst\u00e9matique et positive des anciens pour servir de base \u00e0 l&#8217;histoire de la g\u00e9ographie ancienne, <\/em>in which he expressed the view that Thule was another name for Mainland, the largest of Scotland\u2019s Shetland Islands. Volumes One<sup>(a)<\/sup> and Three<sup>(b)<\/sup>\u00a0are available online.<\/p>\n<p>With regard to Atlantis he considered either Fuerteventura or Lanzarote in the<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/canary-islands\/\"> Canaries<\/a> to have been its location.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/bub_gb_ILux6_pz_4kC\">https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/bub_gb_ILux6_pz_4kC<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(b)\u00a0<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com.mt\/books?id=b8dYAAAAcAAJ&amp;pg=PA322&amp;lpg=PA322&amp;dq=Pascal-Fran%C3%A7ois-Joseph+Gosselin+atlantide&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=EpKEIkw5Tk&amp;sig=Bp9rk0G9NmVHu6YWTPXc1Ls0-Ks&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=VUsBVZfdI-L8ywOO5oGoAg&amp;redir_esc=y%23v=onepage&amp;q=Pascal-Fran%C3%A7ois-Joseph%20Gosselin%20atlantide&amp;f=false\">https:\/\/books.google.com.mt\/books?id=b8dYAAAAcAAJ&amp;pg=PA322&amp;lpg=PA322&amp;dq=Pascal-Fran%C3%A7ois-Joseph+Gosselin+atlantide&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=EpKEIkw5Tk&amp;sig=Bp9rk0G9NmVHu6YWTPXc1Ls0-Ks&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=VUsBVZfdI-L8ywOO5oGoAg&amp;redir_esc=y#v=onepage&amp;q=Pascal-Fran%C3%A7ois-Joseph%20Gosselin%20atlantide&amp;f=false<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fran\u00e7ois-Pascal-Joseph Gosselin (1751-1830) was a French librarian and geographer. In 1813 he published the four-volume, Recherches sur la g\u00e9ographie syst\u00e9matique et positive des anciens pour servir de base \u00e0 l&#8217;histoire de la g\u00e9ographie ancienne, in which he expressed the view that Thule was another name for Mainland, the largest of Scotland\u2019s Shetland Islands. Volumes One(a) [&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":[28,1580,3694,3695,3693,164],"class_list":["post-18673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-canaries","tag-francois-pascal-joseph-gosselin","tag-fuerteventura","tag-lanzarote","tag-shetland-islands","tag-thule"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18673","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=18673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66555,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18673\/revisions\/66555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}