{"id":18954,"date":"2012-12-12T08:49:26","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T08:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=18954"},"modified":"2026-01-26T09:13:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T09:13:35","slug":"delambre-jean-baptiste-joseph-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/delambre-jean-baptiste-joseph-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Delambre, Jean Baptiste Joseph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Delambre.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-18956\" title=\"Delambre\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Delambre.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"189\" \/><\/a>Jean Baptiste Joseph<\/strong><strong> Delambre <\/strong><strong>(1749-1822) <\/strong>was a French astronomer and mathematician and in his 1819 book, <em>Histoire de l&#8217;astronomie du moyen age, <\/em>he misinterpreted a passage in Isaac Casaubon&#8217;s commentary on <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/strabo\/\">Strabo<\/a>, which contributed to two centuries of misunderstanding<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/aristotle\/\"> Aristotle\u2019s <\/a>attitude to Plato\u2019s Atlantis.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012 <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/franke-thorwald-c\/\">Thorwald C. Franke, <\/a>published an English translation<sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/e-f\/\">880<\/a>]<\/sup> of his <em>Aristoteles und Atlantis, <\/em>in which he provides convincing evidence that Aristotle had accepted the reality of Atlantis and hopefully in doing so, Franke has to some extent. redressed the damage done by Delambre\u2019s error.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (1749-1822) was a French astronomer and mathematician and in his 1819 book, Histoire de l&#8217;astronomie du moyen age, he misinterpreted a passage in Isaac Casaubon&#8217;s commentary on Strabo, which contributed to two centuries of misunderstanding Aristotle\u2019s attitude to Plato\u2019s Atlantis. In 2012 Thorwald C. Franke, published an English translation[880] of his [&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":[133,1680,1687,393,692],"class_list":["post-18954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aristotle","tag-isaac-casaubon","tag-jean-baptiste-joseph-delambre","tag-strabo","tag-thorwald-c-franke"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18954","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=18954"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66243,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18954\/revisions\/66243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}