Oblast: Ostalo
ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1979
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Otto Muck - The Secret of Atlantis
Fontana, 1979
315 str.
meki povez
stanje: dobro

The German scientist`s conclusions after a lifetime study of the lost continent make the connections between mythology, folk history, and the physical facts of modern geophysics.

According to the late German physicist, Otto Muck, there undeniably was an Eden, now a submerged plateau in the Atlantic where the nine Azores constitute the tips of its once-soaring peaks, and its destruction heralded the greatest cataclysm ever known. Involved were the Biblical flood, tidal waves and fires for South American Indians, massive flooding over what is today the US, extirpation of the great mammoths, and overnight metamorphosis of Siberia from a green, woody paradise to a waste of permafrost. By piling clues on bit by piece--changed spawning habits of eels, isothermic patterns of the mid-Atlantic, geological strata in China, and genitive use of the term "Atlantic"--and making an enormous number of causal assumptions (including the first and greatest, that Plato`s description of Atlantis was indeed for narrative record rather than for political purposes), prosecutor Muck builds a compelling, if not watertight, case. It contradicts much commonly held science, but to challenge it will require wearing as many shirts as Muck attempts: archaeologist (defines the exact time and date of destruction by Mayan astronomical records); anthropologist (describes the cultural rhythm of the long-vanished inhabitants); marine scientist (speculates on siltation in Norway and cracks in the mid-Atlantic ridge); and astrophysicist (postulates on the stability of the Earth`s orbital elements). An ambitious, highly imaginative case for the reader susceptible to disaster mysteries.

Around 400 BC, Plato wrote of an island, larger than Asia and Libya together, beyond the Pillars of Hercules, where the vegetation was lush, the ground full of minerals and the people highly civilized. Then, `in a single dreadful day and a single dreadful night`, the island of Atlantis was `swallowed by the sea`. The whole planet wobbled on its axis, the Gulf Stream turned north, the Ice Age suddenly receded, gases and debris darkened the Northern Hemisphere for hundreds of years.
The mysteries of Atlantis, lost in this trauma of human history, have intriguintrigued generations ever since; and for Otto Muck, the distinguished physicist and engineer, they were a lifelong passion. Drawing on his immense knowledge of modern geophysics, he makes sense of the catastrophe, connecting mythology to fact, tying in scientific theories with ancient accounts, and transforming fantastic coincidences into a grand synthesis that reveals, finally, the secret of Atlantis.

....probably the most soundly scientific Investigation of the reality of the fabled `lost Atlantis yet written...! PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

`He pours the most fascinating factoids into every 1 chapter, each fact a gem of interest... JANE GASKELL, DAILY MAIL,

...both wide-ranging and scholarly KIT PEDLER, LONDON EVENING NEWS

Contents
Introduction
PART ONE: MYTH OR REALITY?
Plato`s Story of Atlantis Life beyond the Ocean Existence before the Creation? Recent Research on Atlantis Mythical History of the Earth?
Civilization Twelve Thousand Years Ago?
Light from the West?
PART TWO: REALITY, NOT MYTH
The Gulf Stream and Isotherms The Gulf Stream and the Quaternary Era Echo from the Atlantic The Mystery of the Eels
PART THREE: ATLAS - ATLANTIS
Mount Atlas
Country and Climate The People of Atlantis
Atlantis World Power
PART FOUR: THE CATACLYSM
The Geological Evidence
The Center of the Cataclysm
The Fall of the Asteroid
The Great Bang
The Cosmic Explosion
`In the Course of a Single Dreadful Day and a Single Dreadful Night`
PART FIVE: AFTERMATH
The Eruptions
The Sea of Mud
The Deluge
The Great Death of the Mammoths
Loess and Carbon Dioxide
Two Thousand Years of Darkness
PART SIX: DAY ZERO
The Calendar of the Mayas Conclusion
Otto Muck`s Notes on the Tradition of Atlantis
Illustration Credits
Index


Nonfiction, History, Prehistory, Mystery, 0006355587