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18 pages of results. 126. Cosmic Instability [Books] [de Grazia books]
... From: Chaos and Creation, by Alfred De Grazia Home | Issue Contents CHAPTER ONE Cosmic Instability The once preposterous idea is now a commonplace: worlds have collided. Even the naive image of colliding worlds two huge globes smashing, into one another is realized. The very event may be observed daily in the great telescopes of science. Furthermore, galaxies composed of millions of stars are in collision. Any unfortunate beings dwelling in those regions of the universe would not consider the word "collision" to be an exaggeration. The "discovery of the existence, almost omnipresence of a high-energy, explosive universe" is accredited to the 1960's by the Astronomy Survey Committee of the National ...
127. The 'Unconscious' as a Literary Revolt Against Science [Books] [de Grazia books]
... From: The Burning of Troy, by Alfred De Grazia Home | Issue Contents CHAPTER NINETEEN The Unconscious' as a Literary Revolt Against Science (* In 1978 the author sought support from the U.S National Endowment for the Humanities to pursue a line of research that is described here. The application was unsuccessful, but its theory appears to be worth publication, and it is to be hoped that a more sympathetic reception will follow, and possibly that another scholar may take up the theme.) The final success of the uniformitarian over the catastrophist paradigm in the mid-19th century signaled a class of scientific restraints upon literature. Writers had to conform to a demanding science that ...
128. Velikovsky's Challenge to the Scientific Establishment [Journals] [Pensee]
... objective' perspective has sociological significance and accounts, in part, for the reception given to new ideas. And unless we come to appreciate the sociological dimensions of science and thereby perceive the intrinsic follies resulting from the objective' myth, we are bound to repeat, once again, the kind of response given to Velikovsky." Alfred de Grazia has written an excellent account outlining the basic conditions of scientific investigation for what he calls the "rationalistic reception system" and how Velikovsky assiduously abided by such demands without, however, winning acceptance from most astronomers (1 ). Journals devoting special attention to Velikovsky have been inordinately sensitive to objectivity: the Yale Scientific Magazine expressed its viewpoint ...
129. Super Uranus and the Primitive Planets [Books] [de Grazia books]
... From: Solaria Binaria, by Alfred De Grazia and Earl R. Milton Home | Issue Contents CHAPTER FOUR Super Uranus and the Primitive Planets About one million years ago, our Sun, then a Super Sun, underwent a nova eruption because of a sudden or unendurable change in electrical conditions. Solaria Binaria was instantly born. The Sun fissioned and in a huge blossoming cloud there would have been found a diminished Sun. Within a concentration of gases from the old sun would occur an admixture of chunks of the old Sun's interior material (nucleus), including a body that became the binary partner, which we here call Super Uranus. Between the new Sun and Super Uranus ...
130. 'Worlds in Collision' After Heinsohn [Journals] [SIS Review]
... 1997, pp. 44-5, 61-3, 103-5, 128-9, 198. These speculations occur in the context of an exposition of the numerous competing astrophysical scenarios in current catastrophist literature. 5. See Heinsohn op. cit. [2 ], p. 244. The only comparably bold shortening of conventional time spans is that of Alfred de Grazia and Earl Milton in Chaos and Creation, de Grazia, Metron Publications, Princeton, 1981 and Solaria Binaria, de Grazia/Milton, Metron Publications, Princeton, 1984. De Grazia also insists on the primacy of stratigraphy (or the principle of superposition of strata', (Chaos and Creation, p. 71)) in ...
131. Paleo-Calcinology: Destruction by Fire in Pre-historic and Ancient Times -- Part II [Journals] [Kronos]
... From: Kronos Vol. II No. 1 (August 1976) Home | Issue Contents Paleo-Calcinology: Destruction by Fire in Pre-historic and Ancient Times- Part II Alfred De Grazia [* This paper is an expanded version of one that was first presented on June 18, 1974 before the international symposium- Velikovsky and the Recent History of the Solar System held at McMaster Univ., Hamilton, Ontario. Copyright © 1976 by Alfred de Grazia.] A NEW INTERDISCIPLINARY METHOD The mystery of the "Burnt City" of Troy will soon be a century old, but its solution may be within grasp. It can now be reviewed in the light of substantial advances in empirical ...
132. The Founding of Rome [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... From: Catastrophism and Ancient History VI:1 (Jan 1984) Home | Issue Contents The Founding of Rome Alfred de Grazia See Note 1. For some time now, the founding of Rome has been accredited to truculent Latin rustics lost in the miasma of 8th century history. The more glorious legend of its establishment by Homeric heroes, particularly Aeneas, Prince of Troy, has been in abeyance. In the light of recent theory and newly uncovered fact, however, the two stories can be blended into a credible account. To suggest the new history is my purpose here. To begin with, I would allude to two larger ideas which we shall be carrying into ...
133. Paleo-Calcinology: Destruction by Fire in Pre-historic and Ancient Times Part I [Journals] [Kronos]
... From: Kronos Vol. I No. 4 (Winter 1976) Home | Issue Contents Paleo-Calcinology: Destruction by Fire in Pre-historic and Ancient Times Part I Alfred De Grazia Copyright © 1975 by Alfred de Grazia [Note * This paper is an expanded version of one that was first presented on June 18, 1974 before the international symposium- Velikovsky and the Recent History of the Solar System- held at McMaster Univ., Hamilton. Ontario.] Scientists probing the subsoil in their attempts to build up the record of prehistoric and ancient humanity have paid little attention to ashes and other evidences of high heat and conflagration that they have encountered. We would agree with Claude F. A ...
134. Focus [Journals] [SIS Review]
... archaeological record in Neolithic and Bronze Age times, and how this could provide the crucial test for any theories involving widespread natural disasters. Two potential such clusters were described, in the 20th and 25th centuries b.c . in radiocarbon years, probably equivalent to the 31st and 25th centuries BC in calendar years respectively. Professor A. de Grazia concluded the seminar by advocating the application of Velikovsky's views to the interpretation of the archaeological and environmental record but it seems questionable that the audience was convinced. EUAN MACKIE THE PAPER READ BY DR MacKIE AT THE SYMPOSIUM, "THE SYNCHRONISM OF CULTURAL CHANGES AT THE END OF THE NEOLITHIC PERIOD IN EUROPE: THE EVIDENCE OF RADIOCARBON DATES" ...
135. Focus [Journals] [SIS Review]
... by the scientific community and thus not entitled to the treatment accorded a peer. Both ignored the violence of the scientific community's reaction to Velikovsky, the ruined careers, the intimidating letters, the boycott. Both seem to be unaware of the far-ranging implications of Velikovsky's work to all of man's endeavours and the cost implicit in ignoring him. De Grazia outlined these implications in his Montreal address in January 1975 [8 ]. Stecchini's "The Inconstant Heavens" in The Velikovsky Affair is a veritable goldmine of insights into the history of science that go counter to the conventional wisdom. His account complements Bass' writings on the stability of the solar system [9 ], and concludes [ ...
136. Eulogies to Three Quantavolutionaries [Books] [de Grazia books]
... From: The Burning of Troy, by Alfred De Grazia Home | Issue Contents CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX Eulogies to Three Quantavolutionaries I LIVIO CATULLUS STECCHINI 6 October 1913 - 28 September 1979 Oratio delivered 17 October 1979 Livio Catullus Stecchini- Beloved child of illicit romance A boy of lemons and flower looking from Catania to the Ionian Sea harking the threatening Fascist drums following by way of eight tongues and all manner of measures the route of Odysseus, the royal passages of the pyramids, the Enlightenment and Disillusionment of modern man. Tentmate of the corps of intellectual guards, he stuck to his post to the very end, weighing hypotheses, until, not giving up, mind you, he turned ...
137. A Catastrophic Calendar [Books] [de Grazia books]
... From: Chaos and Creation, by Alfred De Grazia Home | Issue Contents CHAPTER FOUR A Catastrophic Calendar If nature and human nature were catastrophized by events of the past 14,000 years, a calendar of the events becomes a practical necessity. Hence we conjecture that from an original primeval chaos to the world of A.D . 2,000, the human race and its natural environment passed through eight phases. They are posted on the adjoining chart, Figure 7. The set of cases is too small for statistical treatment, but, for heuristic purposes, the typical phase may be said to have begun in general natural destruction, passed through a period of recovery ...
138. The Ruined Face of a Classic Beauty [Books] [de Grazia books]
... From: The Disastrous Love Affair of Moon and Mars, by Alfred De Grazia Home | Issue Contents CHAPTER NINE The Ruined Face of a Classic Beauty In the Iliad, Aphrodite leads her wounded lover Ares off the field of battle after he is pierced by the spear of warlike Athena-Venus, and in so doing is herself struck. The poets and historians of ancient times may have known more than we do of disasters among the planets, "That the Moon was attacked and scarred by the comet Venus was known to the Greeks and described graphically by Nonnus." So writes Peter James, and we quote the fine passage from this historian of late ancient times, Nonnus: ...
139. On the Recent Discoveries Concerning Jupiter and Venus [Books] [de Grazia books]
... From: The Velikovsky Affair, Edited by Alfred De Grazia Home | Issue Contents APPENDIX I On the Recent Discoveries Concerning Jupiter and Venus In the light of recent discoveries of radio waves from Jupiter and of the high surface temperature of Venus, we think it proper and just to make the following statement. On October 14, 1953, Immanuel Velikovsky, addressing the Forum of the Graduate College of Princeton University in a lecture entitled Worlds in Collision in the Light of Recent Finds in Archaeology, Geology and Astronomy: Refuted or Verified? ' concluded the lecture as follows: The planet Jupiter is cold, yet its gases are in motion. It appears probable to me that it ...
140. Epilogue [Books] [de Grazia books]
... From: The Lately Tortured Earth, by Alfred De Grazia Home | Issue Contents Epilogue This book will conclude without a chapter given over to the explosion of the Moon from Earth. In Chaos and Creation and Solaria Binaria lunagenesis is treated more directly, whereas here we have mentioned at many points its relevance to geological processes. Lunagenesis was the paramount holospheric event. No major geological process can be understood without a theory of the origins of the Pacific Basin. The reader can, if so minded, judge the plausibility and the consistency of the theory by tracing it with the help of the Index. Geology has not been able fully to confront lunar fission because of its notions ...
141. Bronze Age Destructions in the Near East [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Palestine. The evidence from Anatolia appeared to be clear. At Alaça Hüyük skeletons of men, women and children lay in disorder under walls which had collapsed because of an earthquake. At Troy II, where repeated attempts had been made to rebuild the city walls, there was also evidence of destruction by earthquake. However, as Alfred de Grazia has argued in a highly original and challenging article published in Kronos a few years ago, the severity of the conflagration which destroyed Troy II, to which the thickness of the layer of calcined debris or burnt ash bore eloquent witness, indicated that whatever natural disaster overwhelmed the city must have been of massive, even catastrophic, proportions [ ...
142. On Cosmic Electrical Charges [Books] [de Grazia books]
... From: Solaria Binaria, by Alfred De Grazia and Earl R. Milton Home | Issue Contents TECHNICAL NOTE B On Cosmic Electrical Charges In this work we forgo the concept of opposite charges, which has been in general use since Benjamin Franklin established it. Thus, we revert to a position being argued by other early electricians, who saw no need to introduce "plus" and "minus" charges (Heilbron, pp431-38, p481). The one-charge idea suits our concept that the Universe possesses a net electrical charge and that all star systems can be represented by cavities which are deficient in that charge. Where the word "negative" occurs in this work it means ...
143. On Binary Star Systems [Books] [de Grazia books]
... From: Solaria Binaria, by Alfred De Grazia and Earl R. Milton Home | Issue Contents TECHNICAL NOTE D On Binary Star Systems In the sample of the sixty nearest stars to the Earth we include the Sun. Accompanying seven of these stars is at least one dark unseen body. These unseen bodies are inferred because a wobble is detected in the peculiar motion of the star associated with the dark body (as in Figure 1). Including the unseen bodies as small stars we find sixty-seven stars grouped into forty-five systems. There are three triples, sixteen doubles, and twenty-six single stars. Sixty-one percent of these objects are thus components in a double or triple star system ...
144. On Gravitating Electrified Bodies [Books] [de Grazia books]
... From: Solaria Binaria, by Alfred De Grazia and Earl R. Milton Home | Issue Contents TECHNICAL NOTE C On Gravitating Electrified Bodies In this work we conceptualize "gravitational fields" as an effect of electrical forces acting between charged bodies moving within a charged cosmos (Milton, 1980/81): two bodies respond and move to maintain the greatest separation. In the co-planar orbits of today's Solar System this electrical repulsion among the planets is deemed by us to manifest itself in the Titius-Bode law of commensurable planet periods (e .g . five Jupiter orbits in approximately [120] the same time as two Saturn orbits). Until now the "law" has been ...
145. The Solar System as a Binary [Books] [de Grazia books]
... From: Solaria Binaria, by Alfred De Grazia and Earl R. Milton Home | Issue Contents Part One: ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE BINARY SYSTEM CHAPTER ONE The Solar System as a Binary Contrary to the hypothesis that the Solar System was born as and has evolved as a single star system, it is here claimed that the Solar System was and is a binary system. The binary system was formed when the primitive Sun fissioned. Several planets were generated in the neck of the fissioning pair and co-revolved about the Sun synchronously with the companion (see Figure 1). The remaining planets were generated, one or more at a time, in several episodes, as the ...
146. The Determinants of Scientific Behaviour [Journals] [SIS Review]
... of Mulkay (1969), who uses as a test case the example of the scientific community's response to Velikovsky, who for modern science is an eminent and almost archetypal "crank". The scientific community's response - involving refusals to test predictions, attempts to repress publication, and vicious personal attacks without offering an opportunity to reply (de Grazia, 1966; the journal Pensée) can only be ascribed to norms by stretching the imagination and the explanatory principles. But by utilising the idea of the intense commitment of the scientific community to paradigms - commonly agreed upon principles of explanation and practice - the outrage of scientists at Velikovsky makes much more sense. The purpose here is not ...
147. The Sac and its Plenum [Books] [de Grazia books]
... From: Solaria Binaria, by Alfred De Grazia and Earl R. Milton Home | Issue Contents CHAPTER FIVE The Sac and its Plenum The original Super Sun, prior to its nova, was accumulating electrons from the Galaxy consistent with the demands of the environment through which it was passing. As we have explained earlier, the Super Sun became too electro-negative and expelled material violently into its surrounding space. This material could not escape; its expulsion was opposed both by the post-nova Sun and by the Galaxy. It thus formed and filled a sac surrounding the newly created Solaria Binaria. In the sac was the whole system of Solaria Binaria; the Sun, Super Uranus, the ...
148. The Magnetic Tube and the Planetary Orbits [Books] [de Grazia books]
... From: Solaria Binaria, by Alfred De Grazia and Earl R. Milton Home | Issue Contents CHAPTER SEVEN The Magnetic Tube and the Planetary Orbits The arc along the axis between the principals created a magnetic tube, which surrounded the discharging gases (see Figure 13). A magnetic field surrounded the electrical axis and extended outward to infinity [46]. The magnetic surfaces are here represented by lines, which by their increasing thinness indicate progressively weaker magnetic fields; see Figure 14. The strength of the magnetic field at a given distance from the axis depends only upon the magnitude of the electrical current flowing between the principals. The ability of the magnetic field to constrain the ...
149. An Athena Production [Books] [de Grazia books]
... From: The Disastrous Love Affair of Moon and Mars, by Alfred De Grazia Home | Issue Contents CHAPTER ONE An Athena Production The Love Affair, as I shall call it, is a story of how the arrogant god of war, Ares, made love to the Golden Goddess Aphrodite in the bed she was supposed to share with her husband, Hephaestus, the lame blacksmith god. Hearing of their adultery from Helios, the sun-god, Hephaestus fashioned an invisible net that trapped the pair in bed. Returning from a pretended trip, he called upon the gods to witness their guilt and would release them only on the promise of the sea-god, Poseidon, to stand bail ...
150. The Song of Love [Books] [de Grazia books]
... From: The Disastrous Love Affair of Moon and Mars, by Alfred De Grazia Home | Issue Contents CHAPTER TWO The Song of Love Here then is this song of love. It is presented fifth-hand: My literal verse is based upon a number of translations of what is ultimately a tenth century A.D . manuscript in Greek (the earliest extant-as written down in the seventh-century B.C . and reedited in the next century) of Homer's Odyssey, which reports what was sung by a blind harpist, Demodocus, in a time and place that have been debatable questions for over two thousand years. Alcinous the King announced the event: Now, all and one of ...
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