{"id":3934,"date":"2010-06-11T18:03:24","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T18:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/snider-pellegrini-antonio\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T07:17:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T06:17:04","slug":"snider-pellegrini-antonio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/snider-pellegrini-antonio\/","title":{"rendered":"Snider-Pellegrini, Antonio *"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Antonio<\/strong> S<\/strong>nider<\/strong>–<\/strong>P<\/strong>ellegrini <\/strong>(1802-1885),<\/strong> was a French geographer, who, in 1858[<\/sup>555<\/a><\/sup>]<\/sup>, offered a theory(<\/sup>a<\/sup>)<\/sup> that has been seen as a precursor to that of Alfred Wegner\u2019s<\/a> concept of Continental Drift, which developed into today’s widely accepted model of plate tectonics<\/a>. It also appears that he, along with Roberto Montovani(c)<\/sup>, thought that the Earth had been much smaller at the time of the biblical Genesis(c)<\/sup>, anticipating the Expanding Earth Hypothesis<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Snider-Pellegrini published his theories in La Cr\u00e9ation et ses myst\u00e8res d\u00e9voil\u00e9s<\/em>[555<\/a>]<\/sup>, where he is credited with creating the first representation of the Americas joined to Europe and Africa. This is shown below with the ‘before’ image marked ‘Atlantide’ where Brazil is.<\/p>\n

However, it is claimed that as early as 1620,\u00a0Francis Bacon <\/a>was one of the first to note the close fit between eastern South America and the west coast of Africa. Half a century ago, this attribution was heavily criticised by G. L. Herries Davies(b<\/sup>)<\/sup>, who claimed that the idea came from a ”careless reading of the text.”<\/p>\n

Snider-Pellegrini\u00a0also added the suggestion that Brazil<\/a> had been the location of Atlantis.<\/p>\n

\"Antonio_Snider-Pellegrini_Opening_of_the_Atlantic_sm\"<\/a><\/sup><\/strong><\/p>\n

(<\/sup>a<\/sup>)<\/sup> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200913123630\/https:\/\/www.xearththeory.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

(b<\/sup>)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/238388608_Francis_Bacon_and_Continental_Drift<\/a><\/p>\n

(c)<\/sup>Roberto Mantovani (1854-1933) and his ideas on the expanding Earth, as revealed by his correspondence and manuscripts | Annals of Geophysics (archive.org)<\/a>\u00a0*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Antonio Snider–Pellegrini (1802-1885), was a French geographer, who, in 1858[555], offered a theory(a) that has been seen as a precursor to that of Alfred Wegner\u2019s concept of Continental Drift, which developed into today’s widely accepted model of plate tectonics. It also appears that he, along with Roberto Montovani(c), thought that the Earth had been much […]<\/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":[696,827,812,819,818,356,7210,395,2590],"class_list":["post-3934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alfred-wegener","tag-antonio-snider-pellagrini","tag-brazil","tag-continental-drift","tag-expanding-earth-hypothesis","tag-francis-bacon","tag-g-l-davies","tag-plate-tectonics","tag-roberto-montovani"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3934","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=3934"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63872,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3934\/revisions\/63872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}