William Stephens Blacket
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| W. S. Blacket | |
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| Born | William Stephens Blacket c. February 1810[1] Newgate, London, England, United Kingdom [2] |
| Died | October 1894 (84)[3] Streatham Common, London, United Kingdom |
| Occupation(s) | Tailor; gas collector |
| Noted work(s) | Researches into the Lost Histories of America (1883) |
William Stephens Blacket (c. February 1810 - October 1894) was an English antiquarian, credited as the author of Researches into the Lost Histories of America: Or, The Zodiac Shown to be an Old Terrestrial Map in which the Atlantic Isle is Delineated (London: Trubner, 1883), a book detailing hypotheses about ancient knowledge of the Americas encoded into the Zodiacs and various mythologies, including suppositions about the location of Atlantis, among other things.
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