The View Over Atlantis by John Mitchell (1973) Paperback

by John Michell

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.

Genres: Nonfiction, History

211 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1972

About the author

John Frederick Carden Michell was an English writer whose key sources of inspiration were Plato and Charles Fort. His 1969 volume The View Over Atlantis has been described as probably the most influential book in the history of the hippy/underground movement and one that had far-reaching effects on the study of strange phenomena: it "put ley lines on the map, re-enchanted the British landscape and made Glastonbury the capital of the New Age."

In some 40-odd titles over five decades he examined, often in pioneering style, such topics as sacred geometry, earth mysteries, geomancy, gematria, archaeoastronomy, metrology, euphonics, simulacra and sacred sites, as well as Fortean phenomena. An abiding preoccupation was the Shakespeare authorship question. His Who Wrote Shakespeare? (1996) was reckoned by The Washington Post "the best overview yet of the authorship question."

Reviews

[Rose · Rating 4 out of 5]

Although I read it a long time ago and I had to skip over the geometrical formulas at times, it was an ejoyable read. Maybe now that there is so much attention being paid to what mainstream archaeology cannot fit into their tidy narrow minded timeline, more people might begin to find out that what is mentioned in this book, repeats itself all over the globe.

[Bradley · Rating 3 out of 5]

Full of lots of quirky fun facts. I like it. =)

[Trevor Kiddy · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Lysergius · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting but left me largely unmoved.