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61. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Review]
... , stratified society . . . whose upper echelons lived in special ceremonial centres, evolved a sophisticated system of observational astronomy and field geometry . . . and commanded the manpower, resources arid technical skill to erect some of the largest ... the tourist and inspired the mystic; but over recent years they have also become the centre of heated controversy between astronomers and archaeologists. The conflict has been aggravated by the astronomers' misuse of the archaeological data and the archaeologists' ... Uneven dates In the course of his book Dr MacKie uses a fruitful analogy with the Mayan ceremonial centres and their astronomer-priests. In the 1950's, Velikovsky was attacked for using the Meso-American cosmology as evidence for his theories, on the ...
Terms matched: 3  -  Score: 1815  -  05 Mar 2003  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/review/v0105/20books.htm
... + 29. According to Victor N. Mansfield and John M. Ranklin of Cornell University, writing in NATIONAL ASTRONOMY, an Ionosphere Center publication 64, this pulsar is spinning down so slowly that when the effects of its motion ... why this has not happened has never been ascertained. Obviously some counter force is acting against gravitation, but the astronomers have been unable to find any such force." (emphasis added) (8 ) Younger stars than those ... Lyrae stars are supergiants. This is incorrect, and the masses of these stars are (on the basis of astronomer's calculations) considered to be roughly equivalent to the mass of our sun. Their electromagnetic fields, therefore, are ...
Terms matched: 3  -  Score: 1813  -  30 Jul 2008  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/aeon/vol0102/069stars.htm
63. On Comets and Kings [Journals] [Aeon]
... the planet Venus. (49) Such beliefs have proven difficult to extinguish, persisting until the advent of modern astronomy. In Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico, A. Aveni presents a series of illustrations dating to the sixteenth century, ... for the relative cyclicity of the great extinctions (every 26 million years or so). (4 ) The astronomer Fred Hoyle has likewise proposed that comets may have made periodic visits to the Earth. Indeed Hoyle speculates that life ... of the comet, which- although it has been largely eradicated from the annals of science under the auspices of modern astronomy- periodically resurfaces upon the appearance of a prominent comet such as Halley's. Pre-scientific or not, the ominous portents associated ...
Terms matched: 3  -  Score: 1812  -  21 Aug 2004  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/aeon/vol0201/053comet.htm
64. Ancient Astronomy and Celestial Divination [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... From: SIS Internet Digest 2000:1 (May 2000) Home | Issue Contents Ancient Astronomy and Celestial Divination Kronia List, 08 Mar 2000 Ancient Astronomy and Celestial Divination. A book by N. M. Swerdlow ( ... third millennium, and the earliest personal horoscopes, from about 400 B.C ., as well as the Astronomical Diaries, ephemerides, and other observational and mathematical texts. One essay concerns astronomical papyri that confirm the extensive transmission ... Mathematical Text from the Astronomical Archive in Babylon BM 36849, Asger Aaboe. (8 ) Lunar Anomaly in Babylonian AstronomyPortrait of an Original Theory, John P. Britton. (9 ) The Derivation of the Parameters of Babylonian Planetary ...
Terms matched: 3  -  Score: 1810  -  05 Mar 2003  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/i-digest/2000-1/17ancien.htm
65. The Egyptian Prince Moses [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... also question certain aspects of Josephus' account of Abraham as a great astronomer-mathematician who subsequently taught the Egyptians mathematics and astronomy. Josephus did not want Abraham tainted with a polytheistic background. Josephus, of course, called Abraham a monotheist ... which are, respectively, "nauos" and "nave" provide linguistic links between prophets, seers, and astronomers. Interestingly, in many Medieval cathedrals the nave (nafu in Old English) contained geodetic survey markers and sundials ... responsible for his brother's death. We must also question certain aspects of Josephus' account of Abraham as a great astronomer-mathematician who subsequently taught the Egyptians mathematics and astronomy. Josephus did not want Abraham tainted with a polytheistic background. Josephus ...
Terms matched: 3  -  Score: 1809  -  05 Mar 2003  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/cat-anc/proc3/01prince.htm
66. On testing The Polar configuration [Journals] [Aeon]
... of the "sun" (Helios). (7 ) Though early Egyptian sources do not offer a formal astronomy to directly connect their gods with planets, (8 ) a later Egyptian ostrakon cited by Franz Boll identifies the ... of the "sun" in ancient hymns. (5 ) The Babylonian sun god is Shamash, and Babylonian astronomical texts say in unequivocal terms: "The planet Saturn is Shamash." (6 ) Thus the Greek historian ... und Helios eine und dieselbe Gottheit sind." Ibid., pp. 345-6. 11. Hyginus, Poetica Astronomica, II, 42. 12. Thus the scholiast on Germanicus records Saturn as stella solis, and the same ...
Terms matched: 3  -  Score: 1809  -  30 Jul 2008  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/aeon/vol0102/095polar.htm
67. The Inconstant Sun [Journals] [Kronos]
... the Sun works. That will take years, involving contributions from studies of oscillations of the solar surface, neutrino astronomy, and observations from orbit across the electromagnetic spectrum. But it is already further evidence of the variability of our ... years, and sometimes as great as 17.1 years, making a pretty vague "chronometer" and causing astronomers to puzzle over whether there is any "real" cycle or simply a succession of independent disturbances each of which ... on the ancient records of solar activity and effects on the Earth. These reports appeared in journals such as Acta Astronomica Sinica, and still avoiding the "cult of the individual," the authorship of teams was identified as " ...
Terms matched: 3  -  Score: 1808  -  05 Mar 2003  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/kronos/vol0503/055sun.htm
... the reader had better turn to Vol. I., p. 253, of Chauvenet's "Spherical and Practical Astronomy." If we denote the latitude by f, and let p = the star's polar distance, a = ... , as in the azimuth compass. What we really do by means of such an instrument is to determine the astronomical meridian by means of a magnetic meridian. Here some definitions will not be out of place. The meridian ( ... E. or W. according as the needle points to the W. or E. of truethat is, astronomicalnorth at any particular place at any particular time. The variation may vary from place to place, and always varies ...
Terms matched: 3  -  Score: 1808  -  25 Mar 2001  -  URL: /online/pubs/books/dawn/dawn07.htm
69. Venus And Sirius [Journals] [Kronos]
... (Heidelberg, 1922), p. 70. 2. Natural History II. 37. 3. "Astronomy and Chronology", Supplement to Peoples of the Sea (New York, 1977), pp. 205-244. ... investigate the records of other civilisations to find what light they may shed on the Egyptian text. In the Soochow Astronomical Chart , an eight-centuries-old inscription in stone, in a section that deals with past irregularities in the heavens, there ... . P. Gaubil, Histoire de l'Astronomie Chinoise in P. E. Souciet ed., Observations mathematiques, astronomiques, geographiques, chronologiques et physiques tirees des anciens livres chinois (Paris, 1732), p. 86. ...
Terms matched: 3  -  Score: 1802  -  05 Mar 2003  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/kronos/vol0601/071venus.htm
70. Letters [Journals] [Pensee]
... the Winter, 1973, issue, Velikovsky made some statements that are overdrawn. In the 1950's, physics and astronomy were advancing at a very fast pace. We had not, since Becquerel's discovery of radioactivity in the late 1890's ... path of Venus may be recorded in them. Scribal errors, for example, are common in both mathematical and astronomical tablets of the Babylonians. They should be accepted as such. But, this is not the attitude maintained in ... the five months, for there is no trace of any such error; rather, they are motivated by the astronomer's dogma that the ancients must have seen a solar system that was arranged as the solar system is arranged today, ...
Terms matched: 3  -  Score: 1801  -  05 Mar 2003  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/pensee/ivr05/36letter.htm
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