{"id":38730,"date":"2018-01-27T07:04:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T07:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=38730"},"modified":"2018-01-27T07:04:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T07:04:29","slug":"placet-francois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/placet-francois\/","title":{"rendered":"Placet, Francois"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Francois<\/strong> <strong>P<\/strong><strong>lacet <\/strong>was a 17th century French abbot, who, in 1668, published a small booklet (in French) entitled &#8220;<em>The break up of large and small world&#8217;s, as being demonstrated that America was connected before the flood with the other parts of the world.<\/em>&#8221; A <em>Scientific American<\/em> article relates how <em>&#8220;He argued that the two continents were once connected by the lost continent of &#8220;Atlantis&#8221; and the flood of the bible separated them.&#8221; <\/em><sup>(a)<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>The idea of the biblical flood to explain the shape of continents remained very popular for the next 250 years.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/history-of-geology\/from-the-contracting-earth-to-early-supercontinents\/\">https:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/history-of-geology\/from-the-contracting-earth-to-early-supercontinents\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francois Placet was a 17th century French abbot, who, in 1668, published a small booklet (in French) entitled &#8220;The break up of large and small world&#8217;s, as being demonstrated that America was connected before the flood with the other parts of the world.&#8221; A Scientific American article relates how &#8220;He argued that the two continents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"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":[],"class_list":["post-38730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38730","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}