The View Over Atlantis

John Michell

ISBN 10: 0902006002 / ISBN 13: 9780902006003

Published by Sago Press / Garnstone Press, London, 1969

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Front cover is sunned around edges. Split to top front joint. Signs of being former library as there is a rectangular loss to bottom of spine cover and glue residue to front pastedown. Minor foxing to endpapers. Slight musty smell.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The View Over Atlantis
• Publisher: Sago Press / Garnstone Press, London
• Publication Date: 1969
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0902006002
• ISBN 13: 9780902006003
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fair
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

The View Over Atlantis, John Michell's unrivaled introduction to megalithic science, earth mysteries, and the inner meaning of number and measure, was described by Colin Wilson as "one of the great seminal books of our generation?a book which will be argued about for decades to come." Across much of the globe are ancient earthworks and stone monuments built for an unknown purpose. Their shared features suggest that they were originally part of a worldwide system, and John Michell argues that they served the elemental science of the archaic civilization that Plato referred to as Atlantis. In this connection the most significant modern discovery is that of "leys," the mysterious network of straight lines that link the ancient places of Britain and have their counterparts in China, Australia, South America, and elsewhere. John Michell's studies of ancient measures have enabled him to define their exact values. The same units recur in the dimensions of monuments all over the world, from Stonehenge to Teotihuacᮬ and reveal the builders' knowledge of the size and shape of the spheroidal earth, and with it the outlines of their cosmology.