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34 pages of results. 281. Homer in the Baltic [Journals] [Aeon]
... wood, while pottery is absent. The poet talks of metal vases, usually of gold or silver. For example, in Ulysses' palace at Ithaca "a maid came to pour water from a beautiful golden jug into a silver basin." [28] People poured wine "into gold goblets" [29] and "gold glasses." [30] Lamps, [31] cruets, [32] and urns, like the one containing Patroclus' bones, [33] were made of gold. The vessels used for pouring wine were also of metal. When one of them fell to the ground, instead of breaking it "boomed." [ ...
282. Tektites and China's Dragon [Journals] [Kronos]
... . I quote from the 1971 issue of Scienza Enciclopedia Tecnica E Scientifica: On meteorites: "Three main classifications exist: stone meteorites, iron meteorites, and stony irons. A fourth possible classification- the tektites- is still a puzzle to scientists, but is generally believed to be a strange form of meteorite. (Tektites, or glass meteorites, differ completely in appearance and composition from other types of meteorites. Because of this- and because their possible origin never has been definitely determined- a question still exists as to whether tektites are terrestrial or extraterrestrial objects. Increasing evidence indicates, however, that they are the remains of much larger glassy lumps that have undergone erosion ...
283. The Mythical History of the Comet Venus (Part I) [Journals] [Aeon]
... p .46 #9 ). Egyptian Book of the Dead, Chapter cxxii. 81. (p .46 #10). Ibid., Chapter xiii. 82. (p .47 #1 ). Budge tells us that representations of the ab-heart were "made of many kinds of red stones, and jasper, red glass, red porcelain, red paste and red wax." Amulets and Talismans (New York, 1970), p.138. 83. (p .47 #2 ). Renouf, Egyptian Book of the Dead, op. cit., p. 67, notes. 84. (p .47 #3 ) ...
284. On Morrison: Some Further Remarks [Journals] [Kronos]
... smaller scale thermal convection, should transport heat vertically and thus severely limit the greenhouse effect." (L . Koenig, et al., Handbook of the Physical Properties of the Planet Venus [ NASA SP-3029, 1967], p. 71.) "The greenhouse effect cannot be magnified ad lib. Doubling the thickness of the greenhouse glass may enhance its thermal insulation, so raising its temperature, but it will also cut down the transmitted sunshine, so reducing its heat. In the end, the procedure becomes self-defeating; the loss of sunlight is no longer compensated by increasing insulation, and the temperature of the greenhouse begins to drop. The sea is a perfect greenhouse ...
285. Ever Since Darwin: A Review [Journals] [Kronos]
... of continental drift(1 ) and the description of the mechanism behind it in terms of plate tectonics and sea-floor spreading.(2 ) But Gould sounds the warning himself. A mere eight pages after his "most conclusive refutation of Velikovsky's example", Gould discusses a classic case illustrating how things are distorted by the wearing of continental drift glasses and admits: "The new orthodoxy colors our vision of all data; there are no pure facts' in our complex world. . . . Many readers may be disturbed by my argument for the primacy of theory. Does it not lead to dogmatism and disrespect for fact? It can of course, but it need not. ...
286. Electric Discharge as the Source of Solar Radiant Energy (Part I) [Journals] [Kronos]
... this part of the discharge the plasma. Near the electrodes and near the walls there are still regions where there are large space charges and where the conditions are still essentially those of a unipolar discharge in high vacuum. These regions of large space charge and intense electric fields are called the sheaths. They usually surround the electrodes and cover the glass walls . . . "At still higher pressures, collisions of the electrons and ions with gas molecules profoundly modify their movements so that alterations are needed in the space charge equations and in the equations which determine the distribution of potential within the plasma. Recombinations of ions and electrons may then also occur in the body of the gas and ...
287. A Chronological Note on the Kassites [Journals] [Aeon]
... Chaldaeans or "Neo-Babylonians" from -625 onwards Assyrians of after -720 Post -539 Chaldaeans ruled by Iranian Persians Medes ( -7th century onwards: capital Ecbatana located under modern Hamadan) All three historical periods in actual fact are one and the same. If it comes to metallurgy, architecture, temple- and zi urat building, linguistic developments, glass making, faience etc. etc. the great similarities between the three periods, today stretched over three millennia, were observed and wondered about time and again. Especially, John Dayton (1978) amassed a tremendous amount of evidence pointing to contemporaneity where conventional chronology requires a total lack of simultaneity. * On the pitfalls of Sothic dating ...
288. Saxl's Pendulum Convection of Electric Charge Revisited [Journals] [Aeon]
... and can build up to overpower electricity. This is why gravity is the power to deal with in the macroworld of massive bodies. Furthermore, those who think with Eric Crew that pressure ionization in the cores of planets will assist the ejection of cores confuse ionization with gross charge separation thereby ignoring the extreme difficulty of separating opposing charges. A glass of salt water is totally ionized, but the opposite charges do not partition themselves so there is no gross separation of charge. The Earth, for what it's worth, is electrified(14) and at the surface the fair weather field strength is about -150 volts/meter. This voltage gradient implies a negative charge at the surface ...
289. Cuneiform Astronomical Records and Celestial Instability [Books] [de Grazia books]
... . But Saggs assumes that the solution must of necessity be the discovery of lenses in excavations. Saggs indicates that some lenses were found. Sir Flinders Petrie too was always on the lookout for lenses in his excavations in Egypt, and reported that once he found an object that might have been a lens. I must observe that a simple glass container of the right shape, filled with water, can perform the function of a lens. Furthermore, the written and archeological evidence suggests that in the ancient world enlargement was obtained by the use of mirrors. Mirrors provide simple and powerful enlarging devices. ...
290. The Cosmic Origin of the Swastika [Journals] [Aeon]
... identified by the ancients as a fire drill, to which it bears but little, if any, resemblance. The answer to this puzzle may well have been supplied by science. In his studies of magnetohydrodynamics at General Dynamics in Fort Worth, Texas, C. J. Ransom has observed some telling peculiarities when ionized gases created in a glass cylinder were subjected to a magnetic squeeze. Swastika beneath the feet of Apollo on a Greek coin of the 2nd century B. C. Fire drill used by the Iroquois Indians. While this fire drill, which is only one of several variants, can be said to bear a rough resemblance to the Saturnian configuration (bow as crescent ...
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