KRONOS

A Journal of Interdisciplinary Synthesis

Vol. VIII, No. 1 Fall 1982


TABLE OF CONTENTS

2 Contributors
3 Electric Discharge as the Source of Solar Radiant Energy (Part I) Ralph E. Juergens
15 The Listing by Months: An Ancient Study of the Disappearances of Venus Lynn E. Rose and Raymond C. Vaughan
38 On Comets, Comet-Like Luminous Apparitions and Meteors (Concluded) Ilse Fuhr
53 The Tower of Babel and the Confusion of Tongues James E. Strickling
63 Jupiter - God of Abraham (Part III) Dwardu Cardona
78 Hammurabi and the Revised Chronology Immanuel Velikovsky
85 Science-Fiction and Collective Amnesia: "Dragon's Egg" Richard J. Jaarsma
92 Vox Populi Ellenberger, Serjak
96 Special Offer
Cover Photo: The destruction of the Tower of Babel; after an engraving by Cornelius Anthonisz (1499-1533).


EDITORS

Editor-in-Chief
Lewis M. Greenberg

Executive Editor
Warner B. Sizemore

Executive Secretary
C. Leroy Ellenberger

Senior Editors
Dwardu Cardona, C. Leroy Ellenberger, David Griffard
C. J. Ransom, Lynn E. Rose, Raymond C. Vaughan, and Roger W. Wescott

Associate Editors
Robert W. Bass, Frederic Jueneman, Shane H. Mage,
Earl R. Milton, Bernard Newgrosh, A. Mann Paterson,
Jan N. Sammer, George R. Talbott, and Irving Wolfe

Contributing Editor
Artur Isenberg, Thomas McCreery and Martin Sieff


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