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75 pages of results. 121. The Ramesside Star Tables [Journals] [SIS Review]
... seasons, due to the precession of the equinoxes. Leap year corrections do not halt this drift, in fact they only make it more obvious to the man in the street, and this seems to have been a principal reason for the general Egyptian antipathy to leap-year corrections (see also Appendix III). It is impossible to devise a calendar system which keeps both the sun and the stars to precisely the same positions in the heavens at the same season year after year, but the antique "seasonal hour" system outlined here appears to have been a compromise which genuinely suited the customs of the age. It ceased to he maintainable when constant-rate timing mechanisms, unsuited to seasonal ...
122. Velikovsky, Mars, and the Eighth Century B. C. Part One [Journals] [Kronos]
... deposits sands. . . Beyond this point Daressy does not attempt to provide a connected translation, but he adds that fish were seen swimming in the chapel. His reading of the date on the first line was first month of the second season, day twelve. In a note, Breasted questioned the accuracy of this reading: "This calendar date for the high level of the inundation does not at all correspond to the place of the calendar in the seasons at this time as fixed by well-authenticated dates in other periods. Hieratic dates are usually very cursive, and there is little doubt that the transliteration is here incorrect." Velikovsky quoted the first sentence and added his own ...
123. Velikovsky and his Critics by Shane Mage [Books]
... bodies in motion absolutely denies that either Venus or Mars can have had Earth crossing orbits within astronomically recent time." (S c. V, p. 114, emphasis in original) And that the four objections to Worlds in Collision that Sagan presents as of highest weight are surprisingly lacking in .. . gravity. Ancient Clocks And Calendars Beyond these theoretical criticisms against Velikovsky's reconstruction of historical orbital dynamics, a further area of debate demands consideration: the evidence adduced by Velikovsky to substantiate the orbital and rotational transformations undergone by our planet between 1500 and 687 BCE. Sagan and Mulholland do not venture into a critique of the multitudinous citations, drawn from the worldwide repertoire of literary ...
... the problem may be gathered from the fact that the authorities are not yet decided whether many of the dates met with in the inscriptions really belong to a fixed or a vague year! Let us, rather, put ourselves in the place of the old Egyptians, and inquire how, out of the materials they had at hand, a calendar could be constructed in the simplest way. They had the vague year and the Sirius year, so related, as we have seen, that the successive coincidences of the 1st Thoth in both years took place after an interval of 1460 years. Now, for calendar purposes, they wanted not only to know the days of the years ...
125. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Review]
... book about the massive amount of evidence that red shifts of light from distant galaxies are not solely due to their velocities. As today's cosmology, with all its far-fetched ideas, is based on this assumption it is easy to see why other cosmologists do not want to accept Arp's work but it cannot be ignored as this book shows. The Calendar by David Ewing Duncan 1998, Fourth Estate Ltd With the approach of the millennium, a spate of calendar books is appearing. This one, subtitled The 5000-Year Struggle to Align the Clock and the Heavens and What Happened to the Missing Ten days', is a readable account of the history of calendar making over the last 13, ...
126. Quartered At Yale [Journals] [Kronos]
... the reign of Yao for ten days the sun remained above the horizon; all the forests burned; a multitude of "abominable vermin" was brought forth; an immense wave that "reached the sky" fell on China and swept over high mountains; thereafter the lower regions of the country remained inundated for more than two generations; the calendar was disordered, and it was also necessary to find anew the cardinal points - east, west, north, and south - which was difficult because the land was covered with gloom for many years. It is said also that a new bright star was born in the days of Yao. All this, I demonstrated in my book ...
127. The 108-year Cyclicism of the Ancient Catastrophes [Journals] [Aeon]
... water is not good science, but such is what happened. Better is it to separate the baby from the bath water and to clean it, dry it and diaper it. Step III. A Recognition of the Ancient 360-day Year. This was one of Velikovsky's several shining breakthroughs. He amassed information from thirteen ancient civilizations where a 360-day calendar was used satisfactorily. One of those cultures, the Persian, had 180 days in a "month." Another, the Roman, had 36 days in a "month.". Another, the Chinese, had 15 days in a semi-month, while yet another, the Mayan, had 5 days in a "week. ...
128. Built Before the Flood [Books]
... All rights reserved Built Before the Flood The Problem of the Tiahuanaco Ruins By H. S. Bellamy CONTENTS Preface The Inter-Andean Altiplano Cosmological Considerations An Ancient Refuge of Man The Rise of a New Culture The Enigma of Tiahuanaco The Mightiest Stones in the World The Problems of the Slanting Strandline The Selection of the Site The End of a World The Calendar of Kalasasaya Postscript Bibliography Index DIAGRAMS The diagrams of the sculptures on the Calendar Gate were drawn by the author from special rubbings and casts. Map of the Bolivian Altiplano facing page The Earth and its Satellite at the Time of Tiahuanaco The Map of Ttahua-ntin-Suyu' An intricately shaped building element Trilithic gateway Polylithic gateway Plan of Tiahuanaco Ideal Longitudinal Section ...
129. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... From: SIS Workshop No. 5 (Apr 1979) Home | Issue Contents Letters Sir , I should like to comment on Mike Rowland's short discussion of our calendar and its Roman origins (Newsletter 3, p.10-11) by offering the following corrections and observations. Firstly, it is manifest to those who have studied the civilised nations of antiquity that the Romans were one of the most ignorant of "civilised" peoples; their one strength was land warfare, other things were beyond their invention. Quite why they should have seen fit to invent a calendar of their own when they could have brought a good one with them is an excellent topic for discussion. The ...
130. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... the flights of fancy which form part of the diet of WORKSHOP, and am pleased to note that you are willing to print opposing views. Though overall I find WORKSHOP stimulating reading, I would like to follow in the august footsteps of Dr. Bimson and take your contributor M. Rowland to task. Intriguing as his suggestions for a calendar reform are, their relevance to Velikovskian or catastrophist studies seems tenuous in the extreme, and his grasp of the history of the western calendar is less than complete. A minute's research would have freed Mr. Rowland from his main misunderstanding - that January and February were at some time invented' and added' to the year, which ...
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