{"id":19518,"date":"2013-02-20T07:30:45","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T07:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=19518"},"modified":"2019-05-25T12:00:22","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T11:00:22","slug":"winchell-alexander-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/winchell-alexander-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Winchell, Alexander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Alexander Winchell (1824-1891)<\/strong> was initially a professor of Physics and Civil <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Alexander-Winchell.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-19520\" style=\"border: 4px solid black;\" title=\"Alexander Winchell\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Alexander-Winchell.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Engineering, but later became a professor of Geology and Palaeontology at the University of Michigan. He was devoted to the reconciliation of science and religion, writing and lecturing on the subject. In his <em>Preadamites<\/em><sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/w-z\/\">1175<\/a>]<\/sup> he located Atlantis in the eastern Atlantic, describing the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/canary-islands\/\">Canaries <\/a>as the only inhabited remnants of Atlantis. This book can be read online<sup>(b)<\/sup>. An investigation by William E. Coleman<sup>(a)<\/sup> revealed that some of Winchell\u2019s work had been \u2018borrowed\u2019 by <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/blavatsky-madame-helena-petrovna\/\">Blavatsky<\/a> and appropriately modified to support her theosophical ideas.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blavatskyarchives.com\/colebunve.htm\">https:\/\/www.blavatskyarchives.com\/colebunve.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(b)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/openlibrary.org\/works\/OL1499702W\/Preadamites\">https:\/\/openlibrary.org\/works\/OL1499702W\/Preadamites<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Winchell (1824-1891) was initially a professor of Physics and Civil Engineering, but later became a professor of Geology and Palaeontology at the University of Michigan. He was devoted to the reconciliation of science and religion, writing and lecturing on the subject. In his Preadamites[1175] he located Atlantis in the eastern Atlantic, describing the Canaries [&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":[1875,79,28,1876],"class_list":["post-19518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alexander-winchell","tag-blavatsky","tag-canaries","tag-w-e-coleman"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19518","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=19518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}