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75 pages of results. 351. The AAAS Affair: from Twenty Years After [Books]
... 5. Beneath Bauer 6. All Honorable Men, Journalists and Scientists as Misrepresenters 7. Cometary Venus 8. Bob Forrest and Venus As A Comet In World Mythology 9. Asimov in Absurdity 10. Pompous Asimov 11. Stephen Jay Gould and Immanuel Velikovsky 12. A Rage to Deny - The Roots of the Velikovsky Affair 13. From Calendars to Chronology The AAAS Affair: from Twenty Years After Lynn E. Rose PROLOGUE "QUOTA PARS OPERIS TANTI NOBIS COMMITTITUR?" (SENECA) It is now more than twenty years since the American Association for the Advancement of Science held its infamous Symposium on "Velikovsky's Challenge to Science" in San Francisco on February 25, 1974. ...
352. The Jupiter Order [Books] [de Grazia books]
... decreasing (compare Kukla and Matthews with Gribbin, 1976; A. Brown). The solar year under Jupiter may have had a succession of different lengths. First occurred the Saturnian year, to which we have assigned a 64-day duration [100]. Then it increased to 156 days when Jupiter receded. The Mayans possessed a 260-day sacred calendar that was central to their religious and cultural life, even while using a more modern and exact calendar (Coe, p9). We attribute this sacred calendar to the Jupiter-Earth synods of this era, to the time before 4 400 years ago [101]. At the Saturnian Deluge we suspect the Earth was around 96 gigameters from ...
353. Venus and Sirius: Some Unexpected Similarities [Journals] [Kronos]
... synodic period as 584 days, the nearest whole number to its actual average value, 583.92 days. It so happens that 5 x 584 = 8 x 365, so that five synodic periods of Venus exactly correspond to eight Vague Years. It is an even more remarkable coincidence that in 104 Vague Years, or two times the Calendar Round which coordinates the 260-day count and the Vague Year, there are exactly 146 260-day counts and 65 Venus periods. Among the heavenly bodies, only the moon could not be coordinated into this grand system. Small wonder that the Mesoamericans considered their calendar to be divine."(75) It seems clear, then, that Sirius ...
354. When Venus Was A Comet [Journals] [Kronos]
... with these structures are religious traditions which would appear to be of extreme antiquity. That many of these religious traditions were astronomically oriented seems to be the consensus among scholars. David Kelley, for example, has observed: "It has been clear to all serious students of Mesoamerican culture that there was an intimate relationship between astronomical knowledge, the calendar, and religious beliefs and rituals."(2 ) Susan Milbrath has recently reiterated this view: "A number of scholars agree that the fundamental nature of the ancient Mesoamerican pantheon is astronomical."(3 ) A prominent characteristic of Mesoamerican astronomy, immediately apparent, was an obsession with the observation and worship of the planet Venus ...
355. Conclusion [Books] [de Grazia books]
... , time lapses, and contradictions. I have addressed the problem of the numbers in the Exodus in this spirit. The problem of the great ages of Moses and others by modern standards continues to baffle one. One possibility is some electrical and/or atmospheric effect upon life duration. Another possibility is the calculation of ages by a different calendar, perhaps one of 260 days such as obtained in earliest times among the Mayans and other Meso-Americans and persisted as a sacred calendar after they knew and practiced a contemporary calendar. Then at 120 years of age, Moses would have lived 31,200 days. Measured on the year base of 365 days, he would be 85 years ...
356. Collisions and Upheavals [Journals] [Pensee]
... of the world were displaced. Seasons no longer came in their proper times. "The winter is come as summer, the months are reversed, and the hours are disordered," reads an Egyptian papyrus. The Chinese Emperor Yahou sent scholars throughout the land to locate north, east, west, and south and draw up a new calendar. Numerous records tell of the earth "turning over." An Egyptian inscription from before the tumult says that the sun "riseth in the west." While men attempted to determine the times and seasons, Venus continued on its threatening course around the sun. Under Joshua, the Israelites had entered the Promised Land, and again ...
357. Mechanics of the Great Deluge [Books]
... thicknesses of the average strata of earth of our epoch of time and compare them with average thicknesses of the average strata of previous epochs; and, we can check the area covered by our present South Pole Ice Cap against the areas covered by previous ice caps. The year 1966 has been converted below to the corresponding year in six different calendars. These calendars were established by men whose work represents the most enlightened estimates of their time, especially as to the beginning of their eras: ERA YEAR Grecian Mundane Era - 7,564 Civil Era of Constantinople - 7,474 Alexandrian Era - 7,468 Julian Period - 6,679 Mundane Era - 5,974 Jewish ...
358. Analysis of the Babylonian Observations [Journals] [Kronos]
... must be treated as variables (or as constants) in making a comparison between the pattern of invisibilities reported on the Ninsianna tablets and computed patterns of invisibilities of Venus. The thoroughness of the comparison depends on how many are treated as variables. Not included in the list are observational uncertainties such as weather; uncertainties concerning the relationship among the calendar units (year, month, and day), including the number and location of intercalary months; and uncertainties in the Ninsianna data, where different dates can often be read or inferred for the same event. 1. Ratio of the orbital periods of Venus and Earth. 2. Orbital eccentricity of Venus. 3. Orbital eccentricity ...
359. Evolution from Space [Articles]
... chronology the difference isn't big, but not in our chronology, there is quite a difference. René Gallant: I go by the chronology which exists. The events cited by the Papyrus Anastasi IV could not have happened because Seti II was barely 100 years behind the last coincidence between the solar year of 365 1/4 and the Egyptian calendar year of 365 days, so there should only be 20 days difference. At the time at which the Egyptologists place the Papyrus Anastasi IV, the season could not have been reversed and this is why the Egyptologists dismiss the Papyrus Anastasi IV as not expressing truth. Question (1 ): One can understand that in Egyptian writing there ...
360. Zetetic Scholar Nos. 3 & 4 April 1979 [Articles]
... BC, the year had a length of just 360 days (3 ); but, if borne out, it would not imply a complete rejection of Velikovsky's theory, or even of that part of it which postulates a catastrophic sequence at that time. It would simply mean that such events as there were had no permanent effect on the calendar. The necessary adjustment, in terms of the specific theory, might be large, or it might be small: it would not shake the foundations of the general theory. And the very presence of these "epagomenal days" in numerous calendars, considered inauspicious by the Egyptians (and coincidentally called "unlucky days" by the Maya ...
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