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383 pages of results. 381. Preface to the War of the Jews [Books]
... THE WARS OF THE JEWS OR THE HISTORY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM.PREFACE 1. (1 ) WHEREAS the war which the Jews made with the Romans hath been the greatest of all those, not only that have ... . But if any one be inflexible in his censures of me, let him attribute the facts themselves to the historical part, and the lamentations to the writer himself only. 5. However, I may justly blame the learned ... shall the real truth of historical facts be preferred by us, how much soever it be neglected among the Greek historians. 6. To write concerning the Antiquities of the Jews, who they were [originally], and how ...
382. Actualism in Geology and in Geography [Journals] [Catastrophist Geology]
... , 11-VIII, 14) and HOLMES mentions that Indian beliefs would have allowed much greater lengths of time for geological history (10, p. 44). It Is clear from HOOYKAAS' (11, p. 170 seq ... offering a close parallel to the subtitle of the Elements, dealing with Ancient Changes' and containing the chapters on historical geology that had been printed separately after 1838. 6 The change in the subtitle may be interpreted as an indication ... I do not think it will be of any practical use outside historical discussions. After all, HOOYKAAS Is a historian of science, not a geologist, as RuTTFN has remarked (15, p. 8). I shall ...
383. The Twelfth Planet: by Zecharia Sitchin [Journals] [Kronos]
... that our solar system has undergone drastic changes in its planetary composition is refreshing to any reader willing to view natural history from a standpoint other than one of rigid uniformitarianism. Once these acknowledgements have been made, however, it is ... companion," from sequor, "I follow". And sometimes his eagerness to find linguistic evidence for his historical theses leads him not only to give false translations but to base these on erroneous segmentation of words. An example ... from p. 63) is Sanskrit Prth ivi, "Earth," which he writes Prit - Hivi and glosses as "heavenly mother". Here the h is actually part of the base, which means "broad" ...
384. Compelling Insights: Concluded in Sorrow [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... be somehow amalgamated in a sort-of-unified scheme which would also, incidentally, include Velikovsky's and Heinsohn's drastic revisions of ancient history as well as their cosmic reconstructions. [4 ] But while I will grant that small portions of the above-mentioned ... point out the following: 1. Heinsohn, like Velikovsky before him, believes that planetary catastrophism continued into the historic period, with the greater portion of the mytho-historical record being attributable to that period. Contrary to this view, ... of the purported Martian fly-bys which supposedly beleaguered the Earth during the 8th and 7th centuries BC. Not a single historian of the time ever recorded the supposed proximity of the plant Mars. We do not read of the planet looming ...
385. Sins Of The Father [Journals] [Aeon]
... falsely inflated by some five centuries, thereby inspiring several generations of readers to cast aside the Cambridge view of ancient history and become amateur chronologists. Alas, Velikovsky's bold attempt at historical reconstruction has not fared well and it has long ... been evident that he made a number of fundamental errors in his reasoning that undermined his goal of bringing order to ancient chronology (more below). [1 ] The underlying goal of Pillars of the Past is to eliminate some ... of many of the scientific and technological established facts that are a certainty and that were known even to the early historians like Petrie. Although their Interlocking Web of Historical Documentation was internally consistent with what they perceived as the proper chronology ...
386. Moderating the Middle Ages [Journals] [SIS Review]
... topical 1,000 years. His contentions warrant some examination, so let us first examine his treatment of British history. One would agree with his observations that old history gets lost with the publication of successive new textbooks and that ... Using statistics and astronomy, neither of which I am familiar enough with to comment on, and apparent recurrences of historical events (pp. 58, 59 list 34 items) he concludes that nearly all events that supposedly happened before ... Fomenko believes? From time to time the medieval chronicles report about ancient' facts as of contemporary ones. The historians then start speaking of resurrected remembrance, reminiscences, imitation of old customs, etc. Medieval chronicles very often speak ...
387. Evidence of Careenings of the Globe [Books]
... Auchincloss Brown Last | Next CD Rom Home PART ONE Evidence of Careenings of the Globe HISTORICAL WRITINGS From early Jewish history, as recorded in the Bible, comes down to us a tale of a great deluge, a tale familiar ... of the Earth by Hugh Auchincloss Brown Last | Next CD Rom Home PART ONE Evidence of Careenings of the Globe HISTORICAL WRITINGS From early Jewish history, as recorded in the Bible, comes down to us a tale of a great ... by studying the fossils found in them, and generally the lower strata correspond to the earlier epochs of the earth's history-but not always. Outcroppings of very old rocks appear in many places on the earth's surface instead of being buried deep ...
388. Review, Notes and Letters [Journals] [Pensee]
... termed a star' and the Sun-Jupiter system a binary' by G. Kuiper and others." A stellar history for Jupiter was a fairly popular idea among astronomers in the nineteenth century, and it may be that this same ... exact line of reasoning by which Velikovsky arrived at his conclusion, and its evidential bearing upon his reconstruction of man's historic past. It would be helpful if Velikovsky or his supporters could offer further explanation, now that the claim appears ... parted the Red Sea and conveniently allowed the children of Israel to pass into the promised land. He explains that historians make no record of this event with the convenient rationale that the human race suffers from collective amnesia." ' ...
389. The Cambridge Conference [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... that era there were pleasant memories; for those who joined the Society later it was an interesting account of the history of British catastrophism. On Saturday morning residents, fortified by a large breakfast and their numbers swelled by the arrival ... several day visitors, settled down to three papers dealing with the historical evidence for catastrophes. Steven Robinson set the ball rolling with the sequel to his talk at the AGM, summaries of which were available for those present. Steven ... there was a far more positive acceptance for ideas of catastrophe caused by extra-terrestrial agents than had been evident with our historians. Wal Thornhill proved no exception in his consideration of the planet Venus after a study of the images received from ...
390. Help with Velikovsky, please! [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... . > I understand the problem in discussing V with people is > that the scientists say bad science, but history sounds > okay' and the historians say bad history, but science might > work'. I'd really like ... to intelligently armed for further > discussion. Any assistance would be much appreciated. For an excellent discussion of the historical record of the Maya as can now be read from over a couple thousand year of stele and other inscriptions, ... refer you to A Forest of Kings by Linda Schele and David Freidel, 1990. There is also The Maya by Dr Michael D. Coe in its 5th, 1993, edition. All of what Velikovsky has to say about ...
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