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383 pages of results. 351. Stephen J. Gould And Immanuel Velikovsky: Essays In The Continuing Velikovsky Affair [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... and Hugo Meynell What is called `The Velikovsky Affair' is one of the most fascinating episodes in the whole history of ideas, and has a great deal to teach us about the difference between the myth and the reality of ... had been subjected to a series of catastrophes on a global scale; that some of these had occurred within the historical memory of humankind; and (he was drawn regretfully to this conclusion by what seemed to him the weight of ... astronomers with no "particular" following and no experience in polemics. He states roundly that no scientist or ancient historian takes Velikovsky seriously-which seems a bit hard on Einstein. As to ancient historians, R. H. Pfeiffer, ...
352. Persians And Greeks Invade Egypt. Part I Ch.2 (Peoples of the Sea) [Velikovsky]
... a little further and may we not perchance feel relieved if some new evidence should exonerate the centuries-old concept of ancient history? For this must be clearly understood: we cannot let Ramses III fight with the Persians and keep the hinges ... century before the present era the Old Testament was about to be or had already been concluded, and its latest historical portions-the books of Esther, Nehemiah, and Ezra-deal with the period prior to Ramses III; and Assyro-Babylonia no longer ... ] In some instances the petals on the crown-helmet of the Pereset are embossed with a feather design; this caused historians to speak of "feather crowns" of the Philistines in the manner of the American Indians. But from Ammianus ...
353. Catastrophism And Planetary History [Journals] [Kronos]
... From: Kronos Vol. III No. 4 (Summer 1978) Home | Issue Contents Catastrophism And Planetary History Vine Deloria, Jr.Arnold Toynbee once remarked that the present configuration of "world history" made about as ... there are written records and while the Chinese and Mayans claim some credit in this department, again the development of historical knowledge is understood as the struggles and triumphs of western peoples. In surveying the written records little consideration is given ... petroglyphs and pictographs of non-western peoples because of the inability of western scholars to decipher them. The added difficulty with non-western, non-literate representations of history is that these people, for the most part, only recorded in pictures those incidents ...
354. Velikovsky's Sources Volume One [Books]
... too seems to have a simple physical basis. Werner Keller, in his classic book, "The Bible as History" (1956) writes that "manna is nothing more than a secretion exuded by tamarisk trees and bushes when ... out the dew) to make his quote'. Further, both verses are metaphorical praises of Amun rather than historical records of Venusian catastrophism. Finally, the Venus- Sekhmet equation seems to be pure assumption on V's part- ... BC, which is too early for a circa 1500 BC Exodus. However, that is a matter for the historians to argue out. Secondly, the Ipuwer papyrus does not mention the Exodus of the Israelites as such. Again ...
355. Chapter 14 Agronomy and Climatology [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... Nos. 1, 2, 3 CHAPTER 14 AGRONOMY AND CLIMATOLOGY "Water has profoundly affected the course of human history. Its abundance has helped societies to flourish, its scarcity has caused them to wither. No consideration of history ... temples and various sites within the town walls have been cleared and the work carried down through layer after layer of historical remains, in some cases to virgin soil; the buildings and the graves which we have found represent successive stages ... a life- history of not less than four thousand years."40 Of course, the question of how they were able to do so must be explained by those involved with ancient history. The historians know that, at ...
356. Were the "Sumerians of the Third Millennium" in Reality the Chaldeans of the First Millennium? [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... From: Proceedings of the First Seminar of Catastrophism and Ancient History (1983) Home | Issue Contents Were the "Sumerians of the Third Millennium" in Reality the Chaldeans of the First Millennium?Gunnar Heinsohn and Christoph Marx ... possible oath. It is a promise that is entirely unconditional. The academic helplessness and perplexity in face of the historical integration of the Abraham material within the first millennium can best be documented with the no-doubt-at-present most renowned work on the ... Akkad" period but also- exactly as to be expected- its ensuing so-called civilizations appear as the inventions of historians that must remain "realms of spirits" that left no traces for archaeologists. In Uruk a pavement was found ...
357. Implications for Chronology if Certain 'Historical' Characters are Mythological [Journals] [SIS Review]
... fun at the intellectual Luddites who would install a Genesis-based Creationism in America's schools, thereby mistaking myth and folktale for history. Yet this is simply one sign of many of what can only be called an international crisis in education quality ... 2003 (Nov 2003) Conference Proceedings Ages Still in Chaos' Home | Issue Contents Implications for Chronology if Certain Historical' Characters are Mythological Ev Cochrane Ev Cochrane, an American teacher of cultural anthropology, is the author of Martian ... local Roman history. As a case in point, Dumezil documented that the war of Romulus and Titius represented a historicization of myths, of the transformation of fables into events' [20] '. Dumezil offered the following observation ...
358. Velikovsky And Planetary Catastrophe [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... body in the sky of the terrestrial observer. For the simple answer to the question of Velikovsky's place in the history of science, you can ignore almost everything else you may have heard about the heretic. Why? Because, ... , economics, history and medicine. Did he pretend to be a physicist or astronomer? No. But intensive historical research did lead him to believe that physicists and astronomers have failed to understand the history of the solar system. ... , as stated by the leading astronomers Archie Roy, Lloyd Motz and Valentin Bargmann - and more recently by Victor Clube (Oxford Department of Astrophysics) and the astronomer Tom Van Flandern - Velikovsky did show a remarkable ability to converse ...
359. Beneath Bauer [Books]
... ) that they may not apply to everyone in every society at every time. He merely orates this supposed ideological history of humankind with a casual air of certitude, as if it were absolutely typical like the growth of a tree ... the Velikovsky Affair," Bauer does not analyze the Affair but attempts to assess the validity of Velikovsky's planetary and historical theories. Here he finds himself on much shakier ground, ending up thoroughly bungling the job, as Ginenthal has ... castigated Carl Sagan for offering his readers a much-too-laudatory and incorrect picture of science in his attack on Velikovsky. "Historians, philosophers, and sociologists of science could well take exception to his statements that science is . . . self-correcting ...
360. The Coming Cosmic Debate in the Sciences and Humanities: Revolutionary Vs. Evolutionary Primevology [Articles]
... what I mean by "the sciences and humanities," that is, all fields of knowledge like physics and history. But, in regard to the word "cosmic", three meanings occur, all of which are correct ... past the Earth suffered repeated devastation by quakes, floods, fires, and winds whose dimensions are fantastically beyond any historical experience of the last 2700 years. The surface of the Earth has been twisted and turned, sunk and raised ... by evidences of wide-spread, almost total, disasters that overtook the Minoan and Mycenean precursors of Greek civilization, most historians have accepted a theory that allows 500 years of dark ages. During this period they allege that one set of ...
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