{"id":31321,"date":"2016-10-07T08:54:19","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T07:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=31321"},"modified":"2022-08-01T08:39:59","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T07:39:59","slug":"de-pauw-cornelius-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/de-pauw-cornelius-n\/","title":{"rendered":"de Pauw, Cornelius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cornelius de Pauw <\/strong><strong>(1739-1799) <\/strong>was a Dutch geographer and philosopher, who, although he never visited the continent, was <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/de-Pauw.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-55558 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/de-Pauw-254x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/de-Pauw-254x300.jpg 254w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/de-Pauw.jpg 276w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/><\/a>considered a leading expert on America and in that capacity, he was a contributor to Diderot&#8217;s <em>Encyclop\u00e9die.<\/em> In a 1768 book<sup>[<\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/d\/\">1305<\/a>]<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">+ <\/span><\/strong><\/sup>he claimed that the location of Atlantis had been in Central America.<\/p>\n<p>DePauw cites Pliny to explain the Egyptian habit of counting lunar cycles as &#8216;years&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>He also referred to the apparently exaggerated lifespans of the biblical patriarchs explaining that it was widespread in the Middle East, and further afield, to name a dynasty or family after its founder and attribute the total years of its reign to that founder.<sup>[<\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/d\/\">1576<\/a><\/sup><sup>.258]<\/sup><\/p>\n<p><sup>[<\/sup><sup>1305]<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">+<\/span><\/strong><\/sup><strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/recherchesphilo00conggoog\">https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/recherchesphilo00conggoog<\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> * <\/span><\/strong>(French)<\/p>\n<p><sup>[<\/sup><sup>1576]<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>+<\/strong><\/span><\/sup><strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/philosophicaldi00thomgoog\">https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/philosophicaldi00thomgoog<\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> *\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>(French)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cornelius de Pauw (1739-1799) was a Dutch geographer and philosopher, who, although he never visited the continent, was considered a leading expert on America and in that capacity, he was a contributor to Diderot&#8217;s Encyclop\u00e9die. In a 1768 book[1305]+ he claimed that the location of Atlantis had been in Central America. DePauw cites Pliny to [&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":[594,4918,4919,114],"class_list":["post-31321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-central-america","tag-cornelius-de-pauw","tag-diderot","tag-pliny"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31321","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=31321"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55561,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31321\/revisions\/55561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}