{"id":501,"date":"2010-01-10T10:31:18","date_gmt":"2010-01-10T10:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=501"},"modified":"2025-12-12T14:26:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T14:26:29","slug":"rev-james-baikie-amended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/rev-james-baikie-amended\/","title":{"rendered":"Baikie, Rev. James"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rev. James<\/strong> <strong>B<\/strong><strong>aikie (1866-1931)<\/strong> was a prolific writer<sup>[<\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/b\/\">142<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/b\/\">147<\/a><\/sup><sup>]<\/sup> in the early part of the 20th century on subjects such as, astronomy, the Bible and ancient history.<\/p>\n<p>A hundred years ago, in 1910, Baikie had suggested Minoan <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/crete\/\">Crete<\/a>\u00a0as Atlantis in one of his earliest books, <em>The <\/em><em>Sea-<\/em><em>Kings of <\/em><em>Crete<\/em><sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/b\/\"><sup>142<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup>, which is now freely available to read or download online<sup>(a)<\/sup>. Even then, while Arthur Evans was still reporting his amazing finds on Crete, Baikie was drawing parallels between Atlantis and <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/knossos\/\">Knossos<\/a>. The science journal <em>Nature<span style=\"font-size: small;\"><sup>(c)<\/sup><\/span><\/em> in December 1910<sup>[Vol.85.235]<\/sup> dismissed the book as having \u201cno scientific value\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The only drawback that Baikie considered his theory to have had was Plato\u2019s reference to the Pillars of Heracles. However, he speculates that this was due to some misinterpretation by Solon.<\/p>\n<p>A year earlier, <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/frost-k-t\/\">K. T. Frost<\/a> had anonymously published similar views in <em>The Times<\/em> of London. This \u2018first\u2019 was generously acknowledged by Baikie in his book.<\/p>\n<p>There is now available\u00a0a free Kindle edition of <em>The Sea-Kings of Crete<\/em><sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(b)<\/span><\/sup> .<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/19328\/19328-h\/19328-h.htm\">https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/19328\/19328-h\/19328-h.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(b)<\/span><\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/The-Sea-Kings-Crete-James-Baikie-ebook\/dp\/B0082YZPK6\">https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/The-Sea-Kings-Crete-James-Baikie-ebook\/dp\/B0082YZPK6<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><sup>(c)<\/sup><\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v85\/n2147\/abs\/085235a0.html\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v85\/n2147\/abs\/085235a0.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rev. James Baikie (1866-1931) was a prolific writer[142&#8211;147] in the early part of the 20th century on subjects such as, astronomy, the Bible and ancient history. A hundred years ago, in 1910, Baikie had suggested Minoan Crete\u00a0as Atlantis in one of his earliest books, The Sea-Kings of Crete[142], which is now freely available to read [&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":[2811,63,688,48],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-arthur-evans","tag-crete","tag-k-t-frost","tag-pillars-of-heracles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","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=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65627,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions\/65627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}