{"id":2945,"date":"2010-06-06T10:09:09","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T10:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/carli-giovanni-rinaldo\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T10:05:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T10:05:54","slug":"carli-giovanni-rinaldo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/carli-giovanni-rinaldo\/","title":{"rendered":"Carli, Giovanni Rinaldo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"Rinaldo<\/a>Giovanni Rinaldo<\/strong> C<\/strong>arli<\/strong> (1720-1795)<\/strong> was an Italian\u00a0who had\u00a0quite a diverse range of interests, from economics to ancient history to oenology.<\/p>\n

In a book[<\/sup>087<\/sup><\/a>]<\/sup> concerning the history of the Peruvians he expressed his belief that a close encounter with a comet altered the orbit of the earth, lengthened the year and was responsible for the Deluge<\/a>. A consequence of this catastrophic fly-by was also the destruction of Atlantis, which he located in the Atlantic<\/a>, leaving the Azores<\/a> and Canaries<\/a> as its remnants today.<\/p>\n

Stephen P. Kershaw<\/a>\u00a0comments[1410<\/a>.202]<\/sup> that where Rudbeck<\/a> used the Atlantis story to support Swedish nationalism, Carli attempted to use it to enhance the prestige of his native Italy.<\/p>\n

His idea of a cometary interference with the earth is an\u00a0extension of the theories of William Whiston<\/a> (1667-1752), the Anglican priest, who sought to reconcile science and religion. The French astronomer, J\u00e9r\u00f4me Lalande<\/a>, developed Carli\u2019s cometary ideas further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Giovanni Rinaldo Carli (1720-1795) was an Italian\u00a0who had\u00a0quite a diverse range of interests, from economics to ancient history to oenology. In a book[087] concerning the history of the Peruvians he expressed his belief that a close encounter with a comet altered the orbit of the earth, lengthened the year and was responsible for the […]<\/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":[40,29,28,1010,159,1500,5025,4725,3450],"class_list":["post-2945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atlantic","tag-azores","tag-canaries","tag-comet","tag-deluge","tag-giovanni-rinaldo-carli","tag-jerome-lalande","tag-stephen-p-kershaw","tag-william-whiston"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945","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=2945"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65940,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945\/revisions\/65940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}