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60 pages of results. 141. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... on a massive scale within recorded history, so why not others earlier? As for the problem' with China's bronze age, I don't think that the evidence for the dating of China's ancient cultures has been seriously examined. The inaccessibility of the language to most scholars, and the limited exposure to rigorous analysis of most of those working in Chinese, makes acceptance of ancient authorites difficult to challenge. Given the extreme sensitivity of Chinese dynasties, including the present one, towards the historical record, the survival of an independently-minded history in the manner of Herodotus or Thucydides, or even Tacitus, has not been possible, so far as I am aware. Archaeology therefore tends to be ...
142. A Slice Through Time (dendrochronology and precision dating) by M. G. L. Baillie [Journals] [SIS Review]
... catastrophe' some time between 1620 and 1544 BC: the use of mythical evidence is a most welcome development - far too few mainstream academics will touch such material - but even accepting its account as valid there must remain grave reservations about our ability to ascribe even an approximate date to the event'; (iii) some very approximately dated Chinese evidence of a dust veil record for 1600 +/ -30 BC and even less reliable dates for a change of dynasty at that time. On the latter point, it is well established that Egyptian historical dates for the 2nd and 1st millennia BC are much more securely based (both on archive information and scientific data) than the ...
143. Catastrophe: An Investigation Into The Origins Of The Modern World (Book Review) [Journals] [Aeon]
... agrarian, although a number of Asiatic and a few European peoples were nomadic and lived off their hapless pastoral neighbors. In all, a rather frugal existence for everyone. There were, however, isolated burgeoning civilizations at the end of the fifth and opening of the sixth centuries in both Asia and the Americas. In the Asiatic sphere, Chinese dynasties were either attempting or continuing to centralize and consolidate their city states into radiating political entities that would be hubs of economic power and influence. In the Americas, the pre-Inca and pre-Aztec cultures had a brief moment of peace and tranquillity, and creatively found the time and resources to build their magnificent edifices for future archeologists to ponder. ...
144. Eclipses in Ancient Times [Journals] [Pensee]
... that neither Mars nor Venus nor any other massive bodies have since come close to the Earth, the reader is invited to consider this question in greater detail. Velikovsky is quite wrong in saying that "our knowledge of ancient eclipses comes mainly from Claudius Ptolemy." Several modern scholars (notably Fotheringham) have examined Grecian, Babylonian, and Chinese records and listed passages which seem to describe solar eclipses. A brief survey of astronomical publications reveals at least three recorded total eclipses of the Sun before -687 (the supposed date of Velikovsky's last catastrophe) which have been considered by computers to fit the present motions. This evidence, reinforced by equally early records of lunar eclipses, proves ...
145. Letters [Journals] [Pensee]
... In any event, I do agree with the editors of the journal that the public deserves a better assessment of the validity of Velikovsky's work than it has received to date. Walter Orr Roberts, President University Corp. for Atmospheric Research Boulder, Colorado Professor Roberts is past president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Ed. Chinese Flood To The Editor: Dr. Velikovsky's correlation of the "flood that overtopped the mountains" in Chinese legend with the catastrophe which precipitated the Exodus may provide us the securest dating for the rise to eminence of the drainage engineer Yu, his founding of the puzzling Hsia Dynasty (no doubt in Schechwan at the head of the Yangtze ...
146. Response to Critique by Leroy Ellenberger [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... is (somehow) to discredit such calendric evidence. Velikovsky, as planetary catastrophist from the 1940's to the 1970's, spent thousands of hours in some of the largest east-coast libraries researching ancient literature on the subject. He found an interesting variety of 360-day calendars. The Maya calendar, for example, had 72 five-week divisions. Another, the Chinese, had 24 fifteen-day divisions. The Persians had two 180-day apertures. The very early Roman calendar, a heritage of the Etruscans, had 10 months only, each being 36 days. This is why our last month is still named December, preceded by November and October, for ten, nine, and eight. In the Middle ...
147. The Answer to Clapham's Question: Revise! [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... in total error. After all, inscriptions from Assyria, Babylonia, and Moab provide strong confirmation of the basic accuracy of the chronological framework of Kings- at least from Omri onward. And Herodotus provides independent confirmation of Kings on several points. All that should be non-controversial. I have also argued that a number of independent literary sources- Chinese, Indian, Persian, and Roman- strongly suggest that the Biblical flood was an historical event that took place around 1700 BC, a time frame one can also reach via Biblical genealogies using an estimate of thirty years to a generation.54 The physical evidence suggests that this Flood took place in the Indus Valley and devastated the Harappan ...
148. Solomon's Temple: An Astronomical Observatory [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... that went on endlessly in antiquity. When the work of Cyrus H. Gordon is added to those of Moran and Kelley we have the possibility of relationship in several alphabets and signs for various zodiacs. Note these points:12 The Ugaritic alphabet had 30 letters, corresponding to 360/30 = 12 days or one lunar month. One Chinese astrological chart contained 28 stations with a number of correspondences to the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet. The Greeks had 24 letters in their alphabet, which they claimed came from Phoenicia. The parallelism to the 24 courses in Solomon's temple is striking. The calendrical device therein was made by a Phoenician craftsman who knew a great deal of ...
149. The Hermes Connection [Journals] [Aeon]
... comprehension The paths inherent in the Tao are many and varied. They converge and diverge in an interlacing pattern of philosophical ideas, appearing different each time they are examined. In this respect: The interplay of yin and yang, the primordial pair of opposites, appears thus as the principal that guides the movements of the Tao, but the Chinese did not stop there. They went on to study various combinations of yin and yang which they developed into a system of cosmic archetypes. This system is elaborated in the I Ching, or Book of Changes. (3 ) The fact of the matter is that the Tao can be as simple or as complex as one could imagine ...
150. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... Sun. Because this means its poles get heated this may cause an instability inside the planet which causes heat to be carried more efficiently to its surface to be radiated into space. The return of the comet New Scientist 4.6 .94, p. 14 A comet observed last year may be the same as that observed by the Chinese in 574. This would make it the comet with the longest known orbital period. Melted moons New Scientist 18.6 .94 A reader suggests that early impacts on Jupiter could have caused flash fires which melted the surface of its moons, such as Europa for which tidal stresses have previously been blamed. Dusty Universe Washington Post 4 ...
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