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245 pages of results. 81. Sothis and the Morning Star in the Pyramid Texts [Journals] [Aeon]
... : "That spd and spdt Sothis' are both identified with Sirius is one of the rare certainties in Egyptian astronomy." (5 ) Inasmuch as we will have reason to dispute such claims, it is necessary to review ... , it is true, do contain reference to an association between Sothis and the flooding of the Nile. The astronomical ceiling of Ramses II, for example, bears the following statement addressed to the king: "You go up ... paramount importance not only for a correct understanding of ancient Egyptian religion, but- because of the heavy reliance upon astronomically-oriented methods of retrocalculating history (via the Sothic cycle)- of an adequate foundation for ancient chronology as well. ...
82. Old World Maps -- A Response to Charles Ginenthal [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... Masachusetts, 1981), pp. 143, 268. 14. Otto Neugebauer, A History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy (New York, 1975), pp. 368-9, 593-600. 15. De Santillana and von Dechend, ... prize for one. The winning chronometer was selected in 1762. On land, however, a skillful and patient astronomer could use the Moon as a clock to determine longitude. A concomitant mapping problem was the length of one degree ... . The problem is that, for at least 4,000 years, there was no division between astrology and astronomy- even Copernicus cast horoscopes. Since remote antiquity, star locations were based on measuring from the "First point of ...
83. Analysis of the Babylonian Observations [Journals] [Kronos]
... specified within a couple of degrees. This is far short of the level of precision that is commonplace in modern astronomy, but it must be remembered that we are not seeking anything like that level of precision. Indeed, our ... on orbits with eccentricities specified within a couple of hundredths and semimajor axes specified within a couple of hundredths of an astronomical unit and perihelia offset specified within a couple of degrees. This is far short of the level of precision that ... Heft 23, 7. Jahrgang, Heft 2 (1906). Schiaparelli, Giovanni. Scritti Sulla Storia della Astronomia Antica. Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli Editore, 1925-1927. 3 vols. 1, 5-27 contains "Osservazioni e Calcoli ...
84. Senmut and Phaeton [Journals] [SIS Review]
... of the heavens. 8. Descriptions of the constellations Scorpius and Sagittarius can be found in The Flammarion Book of Astronomy (George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1964 p.405); they are seldom referred to in European ... .S .C ., formerly in the Royal Navy and for many years a marine navigator. The "astronomically objectionable" Senmut ceiling is here inspected: with a new identification of some of the constellations, it is found ... "Khnumu"*, are also of interest in that they are located at precisely the point where a Chaldean astronomer-astrologer would have placed the ram Aries (though not where it would presumably have belonged in the legendary era, for ...
85. Father Kugler's Falling Star [Journals] [Kronos]
... of the Stars"in the books of the Sibylline Oracles. Kugler is rare among trained specialists in history and astronomy in giving some credence to the possibility of large-scale natural catastrophes, but nevertheless finds himself constrained by the orthodox beliefs ... Pioneer of Archaeoastronomy Born on 27th November 1862 in Königsbach, and described in encyclopedias(1 ) as an "astronomer and Assyriologist", Franz Xaver Kugler had fair claim to be considered a polymath. He studied physical sciences in ... catastrophes. This can be seen with complete clarity in Manilius, the stoic poet of the time of Augustus (Astronomicon IV, 829ff.): Concutitur tellus variis compagibus haerens, Subducitque solum pedibus. Natat orbis in ipso, ...
86. The Saturn Thesis: Questions and Answers [Journals] [Aeon]
... Rather, Sagan's expressed view- the official view of science for many years- fits comfortably within the textbooks on astronomy, geology, biology, anthropology, and ancient history. When we launched the U.S . Space program ... an unstable solar system, of interplanetary upheaval, or of wholesale changes in the celestial order. When the popular astronomer Carl Sagan presented his impressive exposition on the nature of things, called Cosmos, he didn't ask if we may ... at some point something will have to give. Either the historical argument is going to be refuted, or the astronomer's thinking on such issues will have to be expanded- and to an unprecedented degree. Is it significant that no ...
87. Samson Revealed [Journals] [Aeon]
... radical in its implications- crediting prehistoric man the world over with a relatively sophisticated understanding of science in general and astronomy in particular- one would think that it was incumbent upon the authors to present a wealth of evidence in favor ... career is that offered by Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend in Hamlet's Mill, a monumental study of the astronomical content of ancient myth and legend. Although Hamlet's Mill has languished in obscurity for the better part of three decades ... Mars. 27. Scholia in Apollonium Rhodium III:1378; Pliny NH II:34; Hyginus, Poetica Astronomica II.42; Serv. Aen. VIII:275. See the discussion in W. Roscher, " ...
88. Velikovsky's Sources Volume One [Books]
... the transformation of Phaethon into a planet is Hesiod (2 ). This transformation is related by Hyginus in his Astronomy', where he tells us how Phaethon, that caused the conflagration of the world, was struck by a ... that this new star is purely symbolic, or, as I said above, a prophetic vision rather than an astronomical observation. On WIC p.161, V writes : " The birth of the Morning Star, or the ... possible that V's confusion follows on from that of Nonnus.) Note 3, refers to Hyginus' "Poetica Astronomica" 11.42, which I will here reproduce in full as it well illustrates how V builds up his ...
89. Velikovsky, Mars, and the Eighth Century B.C. Part Two [Journals] [Kronos]
... as its perihelion (where it moves fastest) precess quite rapidly, at different periods. The perplexity of Chinese astronomy in dealing with these inequalities is expressed in the traditional statement that "the Moon has nine roads". There ... 21), Velikovsky wrote that "the calculation 776 B.C . is made on the authority of the astronomer Y-hang who lived a generation later".(6 ) However, I Hsing actually lived in the eighth century ... Immanuel Velikovsky, Worlds in Collision, p. 211. 2. In Vol. 3 of Observations mathématiques, astronomiques, géographiques, chronologiques, et physiques tirées des anciens livres chino is ou faites nouvellement .. . ed. ...
90. "Following The Precedent Of One Galileo". File I (Stargazers and Gravediggers) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Stargazers]
... 444; "John Adam Schall von Bell, later to be the first European director of the Chinese Bureau of Astronomy, was present as a young man in the hall of the Roman College in May 1611 when Galileo received a ... business as a joke. Wasn't Larrabee a Lampoon editor? Perhaps I wrote you that a vice-president of the American Astronomical Society thought that the Council of the Society should send a protest to Macmillan, the famous publisher of highly reputable ... the moons of Jupiter on his way to paradise. Can we believe that this was the behavior of philosophers and astronomers- to declare something a fraud that one refuses to examine? The level of the arguments raised against Galileo and the ...
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