{"id":4157,"date":"2010-06-12T17:57:10","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T17:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/tournefort-j-pitton-de\/"},"modified":"2020-08-18T07:35:56","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T06:35:56","slug":"tournefort-j-pitton-de","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/tournefort-j-pitton-de\/","title":{"rendered":"Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Joseph Pitton de<\/strong><strong> T<\/strong><strong>ournefort <\/strong><strong>(1656-1708)\u00a0<\/strong>sometimes referred to as \u201cthe Father of Botany\u201d, strayed from his chosen field when he suggested that Atlantis had been located <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/tournefort.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-23127\" style=\"border: 4px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/tournefort.png\" alt=\"tournefort\" width=\"205\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a>in the Atlantic and that following an <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/earthquake\/\">earthquake<\/a> in the Mediterranean, the level of that sea rose causing an outflow into the Atlantic that swamped Atlantis. Sprague de Camp states that Tournefort got his idea from the Greek writer <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/strato-of-lampsacus\/\">Strato<\/a> of Lampsacus (c. 250 BC), who declared that the Black Sea had joined the Mediterranean when it overflowed into it and in a similar fashion the Mediterranean had joined the Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/stelios-grant-pavlou\/\">Stel Pavlou<\/a> (<em>Atlantipedia.com<\/em>) has traced Tournefort\u2019s comments to the posthumously published <em>Relation d&#8217;un voyage du Levant<\/em><sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/t-v\/\">1467<\/a>]<\/sup> published in sets of two and three volumes. Kessinger has published a facsimile copy of volume 3 and the original French can also be read or downloaded from the Internet<sup>(a)<\/sup>. An English translation was reportedly published in 1718.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656-1708)\u00a0sometimes referred to as \u201cthe Father of Botany\u201d, strayed from his chosen field when he suggested that Atlantis had been located in the Atlantic and that following an earthquake in the Mediterranean, the level of that sea rose causing an outflow into the Atlantic that swamped Atlantis. Sprague de Camp states [&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":[27,2880,2881,2882,1644],"class_list":["post-4157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-black-sea","tag-joseph-pitton-de-tournefort","tag-sprague-de-camp","tag-stel-pavlou","tag-strato"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4157","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=4157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45919,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4157\/revisions\/45919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}