KRONOS

A Journal of Interdisciplinary Synthesis

Vol. II, No. 1. August 1976

TABLE OF CONTENTS
3 The Birth of Venus from Jupiter Immanuel Velikovsky & Ralph E. Juergens
11 The "Bulk Chemistries" of Venus and Jupiter Ralph E. Juergens
16 The Rotational Resonances of Mercury and Venus Lynn E. Rose
28 The Moon C. J. Moon
38 On the Origin of Tektites Dwardu Cardona
45 Some Additional Comments on Tektites Ralph E. Juergens
48 The Role of Ancient Myths in Orthodox Natural Science A. Mann Paterson
57 The Ultimate Catastrophe? H. C. Dudley
63 Paleo-Calcinology: Destruction by Fire in Pre-historic and Ancient Times -- Part II Alfred de Grazia
72 Precise Synchronization Involving the Revised Chronology Jerome Colburn
76 Pygmalion, Prince of Tyre, and the el-Amarna Correspondence Bronson Feldman
89 Devi and Venus Artur lsenberg
104 For the Record...
110 Perplexities of Orthodoxy . . .
114 Notices
115 The Book Case
119 Editorial Statement
120 Notes about the Contributors

EDITORS

Editor-in-Chief
LEWIS M. GREENBERG

Executive Editor
WARNER B. SIZEMORE

Senior Editors
ROBERT W. BASS, ROBERT H. HEWSEN and LYNN E. ROSE
C.J. RANSOM, LYNN E. ROSE AND IRVING WOLFE

Associate Editors
H. JAMES BIRX, H.C. DUDLEY, DAVID GRIFFARD, RICHARD F. HAINES
FREDERIC B. JUENEMAN, MARVIN A. LUCKERMAN, EARL R. MILTON
ALAN PARRY AND A. MANN PATERSON

Contributing Editors
DWARDU CARDONA, VANCOUVER, B. C., ZVI Rix, JERUSALEM, ISRAEL

Consulting Editor
JOSEPH MAY

London Correspondent
MARTIN SIEFF

STAFF

Robert W. Bass (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins), Rhodes Scholar, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Brigham Young Univ., Provo, Utah: Senior Editor.

H. James Birx (Ph.D., SUNY-Buffalo), Associate Professor of Anthropology at Canisius College (Buffalo): Associate Editor.

H.C. Dudley (Ph.D., Georgetown Univ.), Professor of Radiation Physics, Univ. of Illinois at the Medical Center (Chicago): Associate Editor.

Lewis M. Greenberg (M.A., A.B.D., Univ. of Pennsylvania), Associate Professor of Art History and Chairman of the Dept. of Art History and Social Sciences, Moore College of Art (Philadelphia): Editor-in-Chief.

David Griffard (Ph.D., Univ. of Pittsburgh), Associate Professor of Psychology, Community College of Allegheny County (Pittsburgh): Associate Editor.

Richard F. Haines (Ph.D., Michigan State Univ.), Research Member of NASA Ames Research Center (Mountain View): Associate Editor.

Robert H. Hewsen (Ph.D., Georgetown Univ.), Professor of History, Glassboro State College (Glassboro, N.J.): Senior Editor.

Frederic B. Jueneman (B.A., San Francisco State Univ.), Director/Research, Innovative Concepts Associates (San Jose, Calif.): Associate Editor.

Ralph E. Juergens (B.S., Case-Western Reserve), Civil Engineer (Flagstaff, Arizona): Senior Editor.

Marvin A. Luckerman (M.A., A.B.D., U.C.L.A.), Docent at Hebrew Union College Museum (Los Angeles): Associate Editor.

Joseph May (Ph.D., Kent State Univ.), Assistant Professor of History at Youngstown State Univ. (Ohio): Consulting Editor.

Earl Milton (Ph.D., Univ. of Alberta), Spectroscopist, Associate Professor and Chairperson of the Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Lethbridge (Alberta): Associate Editor.

Alan Parry (Ph.D., Univ. of California, Berkeley and the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley), Head of the Univ. Counseling Centre, Univ. of Lethbridge (Alberta):Associate Editor.

A. Mann Paterson (Ph.D., SUNY-Buffalo), Professor of Philosophy, SUNY-College-Buffalo: Associate Editor.

C.J. Ransom (Ph.D., Univ. of Texas, Austin), Physicist, General Dynamics Corp. (Fort Worth): Senior Editor.

Lynn E. Rose (Ph.D., Univ. of Pennsylvania), Professor of Philosophy, SUNY-Buffalo: Senior Editor.

Warner B. Sizemore (M.A., Temple Univ., B.D., Lincoln University), Assistant Professor of Religion, Glassboro State College: Executive Editor.

Irving Wolfe (Ph.D., Univ. of Bristol, England), Assistant Professor of English at the Universite de Montreal: Senior Editor.

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