{"id":573,"date":"2010-01-23T13:17:11","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T13:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=573"},"modified":"2017-04-02T18:38:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-02T17:38:28","slug":"carlos-de-siguenza-y-gongora-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/carlos-de-siguenza-y-gongora-new\/","title":{"rendered":"Sig\u00fcenza y G\u00f3ngora, Carlos de"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Siguenza2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-26946\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Siguenza2.png\" alt=\"Siguenza2\" width=\"200\" height=\"252\" \/><\/a>Carlos de <\/strong><strong>S<\/strong><strong>ig\u00fcenza y G\u00f3ngora <\/strong><strong>(1645-1700) <\/strong>was born and died in Mexico City. For a time he joined the Jesuits. He was a professor of mathematics and was both\u00a0an\u00a0astronomer and a geographer, creating the first map depicting all of New Spain by one of its citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Writing on the ancient history of Mexico, he speculated on the origins of its inhabitants suggesting that they arrived from Atlantis, which in turn had been colonised by\u00a0 Egyptians<sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/s\/\">1323<\/a>]<\/sup>.\u00a0His views in this regard were heavily influenced by the writings of <a href=\"#KircherA\">Athanasius Kircher<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He supported this contention with a list of cultural similarities, in particular, their use of pyramids. This idea of Atlantean migrants was adopted by a number of more recent commentators such as <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/requena-professor-rafael\/\">Rafael Requena<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos de Sig\u00fcenza y G\u00f3ngora (1645-1700) was born and died in Mexico City. For a time he joined the Jesuits. He was a professor of mathematics and was both\u00a0an\u00a0astronomer and a geographer, creating the first map depicting all of New Spain by one of its citizens. Writing on the ancient history of Mexico, he speculated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[460,3448,2555,42,420,3500],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-athanasius-kircher","tag-carlos-de-siguenza-y-gongora","tag-egyptians","tag-mexico","tag-pyramids","tag-rafael-requena"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","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=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}