> atlantis also became an obsession for the swedish physician and scholar olav rudbeck, rector of uppsala university. in 1679, he published a work called atlantica, with which he seriously intended to prove that sweden was the cradle of history. the books title page shows an arrogant rudbeck dissecting the map of europe and revealing, beneath the surface of sweden, the island of the gods  ancient atlantis and, at the same time, the land of the hyperboreans of greek mythology  to the astonishment of ancient scholars, philosophers and historians, including plato himself. naturally, he located the lost metropolis precisely in uppsala > however, this was not the only motivation behind the dreams about atlantis. at the height of the age of reason, the astronomer jean-sylvain bailly, who in 1789 also became the first mayor of revolutionary paris, attempted to deduce the place of origin of civilization in a way that seemed logical and scientific to him > many enlightenment thinkers, such as voltaire, thought that the origin of civilization could be found on the banks of the ganges and the indus. not only did indian myths attribute a fantastic antiquity to their culture, but linguists already knew that the languages of europe were not related to biblical hebrew, while the vast majority had a clear kinship with the so-called aryan languages of india and iran, and that of all the indo-european languages then known, the closest to the common root was sanskrit, the sacred language of ancient india. believing that india was indeed the oldest known civilization, bailly alluded to a supposedly very ancient series of hindu astronomical tablets, whose indications, in his view, suggested that they had been compiled not in south asia, but near the 49th parallel
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