{"id":54768,"date":"2022-06-10T07:06:50","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T06:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=54768"},"modified":"2025-12-13T18:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T18:15:11","slug":"belt-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/belt-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"Belt, Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thomas<\/strong><strong> Belt<\/strong><strong> (1832-1878) <\/strong>was a British geologist and engineer. As a naturalist, he had a great interest in Ice Age theory and travelled far and wide studying the effects of glaciation.<\/p>\n<p>In his best-known work, <em>The Naturalist in Nicaragua <\/em><sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/b\/\">1934<\/a>]<\/sup><em>, <\/em>Belt touched briefly on the matter of Atlantis. The <em>atlantisforschung.de<\/em> website offers the following comments from <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/serviss-garrett-p-n\/\">Garrett P. Serviss<\/a> in 1918, &#8220;<em>Among the most interesting\u00a0passages in Thomas Belt&#8217;s\u00a0fascinating book, which is now a classic of scientific literature, are those in which he discusses the\u00a0<\/em><em>Atlantis legend, which he introduces with the tempting sentence: Why the fabulous Atlantis was actually a myth or was it that great continent in the Atlantic, exposed by a subsidence of the ocean, on which today&#8217;s West Indies were mountains that rose high above the level, and fertile plains, which are now covered by the sea?&#8221;<\/em><sup>(a) <\/sup><\/p>\n<p><sup>(a) <\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantisforschung.de\/index.php?title=Thomas_Belt\">Thomas Belt \u2013 Atlantisforschung.de<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Belt (1832-1878) was a British geologist and engineer. As a naturalist, he had a great interest in Ice Age theory and travelled far and wide studying the effects of glaciation. In his best-known work, The Naturalist in Nicaragua [1934], Belt touched briefly on the matter of Atlantis. The atlantisforschung.de website offers the following comments [&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-54768","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\/54768","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=54768"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65685,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54768\/revisions\/65685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}