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71 pages of results. 561. Isaac Asimov in Absurdity [Books]
... According to all existing theories, the angular velocity of a satellite must be slower than the velocity of rotation of its parent. But the inner satellite of Mars revolves more rapidly than Mars rotates. ' "That's a very pretty paragraph but its quite wrong, and it shows that as an astronomer, Velikovsky may quite possibly be an excellent psychologist. "There is absolutely nothing in any astronomic theory I have ever heard that relates the angular velocity of a satellite to the period of rotation of the planet it circles. Nothing requires that a satellite revolve about its planet either faster or slower than the planet's period of rotation. "The angular velocity of a satellite depends on two ...
562. The Domination of Astronomy Over Other Disciplines ... [Journals] [Kronos]
... of the variation or indefiniteness of the terrestrial realm interferes with such calculations. The Aristotelian view is that the heavens are made of a nobler substance than are the humble objects on Earth, and that the science that studies the heavens is therefore a nobler science than the mundane sciences of biology, geology, chemistry, physics, history, and psychology. Thus we have the view that astronomy is the queen of the sciences'. This view that astronomy is the queen of the sciences has been with us for more than two thousand years; its popularity remains high, especially among astronomers. Aristotle's pupil, Alexander the Great, conquered a large part of the known geographical world, ...
563. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... Oliver Gillie reported on BBC Radio 4 programme on the "Burt Scandal" for New Scientist in a refreshingly frank style, and we offer no excuses for extracting the juicy bits. For scientific behaviour in one field should not be seen in isolation: the behaviour is likely to appear in many diverse fields. As Leon Kamin, an experimental psychologist who discovered the fatal flaws in the work of Sir Cyril Burt on I.Q . put it: "Scientists are just as human as everybody else. They have their prejudices, their motives and ideologies. On occasion a scientist can be a fraud or a simple liar. I am surprised sometimes at how willing normally sceptical members ...
564. News from the Internet [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... assertion that many myths reflect aspects of human society are on target, although they were not inspired by those aspects, but modelled them. Jung's archetypes and Lévi-Strauss' binary structure exist and operate in the mind as suggested, but were the imprint rather than the origin of the myths. The external, visual experience was primary and informed the psychological, sociological and artistic dimensions of myth. The celestial provenance of the myths' contents accounts for the remarkable uniformity of human tradition and highlights its credibility. And unlike many previous theories of myth, the interdisciplinary connection with plasma science adds the invaluable benefit of testability: controlled laboratory experiments are capable of testing the theory by replicating the hypothetical ...
565. Sagan's Folly Part 1 [Journals] [Kronos]
... Religion," Pensée IX, Fall, 1974, p. 50- emphasis added). Deloria's last statement is especially applicable to Sagan who, despite his deep involvement with humankind's future "cosmic connection", is stubbornly oblivious to the fundamental implications of humankind's past "cosmic connection" (Cf. KRONOS 1: 1, "Cosmology and Psychology," April, 1975, pp. 33-50). Apparently, Sagan also forgot his own self-directed admonition: ". .. to keep firmly in mind the ancient writings which are the focus of [Velikovsky's] argument .. . [and] to confront his conclusions with both the facts and .. . logic. . ...
566. "Heaven and Earth": Catastrophism in Hamlet [Journals] [Kronos]
... . At the beginning, however, several propositions must be set forth, the first of which concerns myth. Because this article will rely heavily upon correspondences between Hamlet and different bodies of folk narrative, a general statement of purpose is in order. Briefly, this article is predicated upon the concept that myth is truth; not simply private psychological truth, after Freud, or symbolic, archetypal truth, after Jung, or seasonal, vegetative truth, after Frazer, but also literal historical truth, after Velikovsky. It is this principle upon which Worlds in Collision itself is based.(3 ) Myth is a communal language, perhaps a universal one. It is collective expression ...
567. Aftermath to Exposure [Books] [de Grazia books]
... informed Hess that he had been directed to seek the advice of several responsible scientists and scholars, all members of the society' but not of the publications committee. He promised to keep Hess informed of later developments. Along with Cecilia Gaposchkin and I. Bernard Cohen, professor of the history of science, Edwin Boring - a professor of psychology - was a scheduled speaker on the programme of the 1952 symposium on unorthodoxies. Thus the panel was dominated by Harvard professors. Boring, in his talk and in the version later published in the Proceedings, did not neglect to make sport of Velikovsky. Two years later, in an article published in the American Scientist for October 1954 ...
568. Generalists, Specialists, "Pereset", and Ancient Astronomical Awareness [Journals] [Kronos]
... philosophy the problem becomes solely one of tactics. Above all, we should not be ashamed of our specialism: those who rule the establishment are themselves specialists and must be spoken to as such- preferably by such. And this demands not only that we attack from a base of scholarly equality, but that we act on a level of psychological equality.... * * * The area most obviously ripe for conquest is Egyptology. Now, specialists in all areas are subject to dogmas, the foremost among which is that their own field operates on the basis of established and proven principles. As a linguist, I admit allegiance to this dogma, and the following should ...
569. The Golden Age and Nova of Super Saturn [Books] [de Grazia books]
... and obsessive mourning shows mankind affected by, not affecting, a real tragedy. Thousands of years after the death of the second sun and the end of his age, the Roman government was acting to suppress infant sacrifice to Saturn. The parallels between Saturn and Christ as a Saturnian figure are numerous: the passion of Christ is historically and psychologically a reenactment of the character, the unjust death, and the resurrection of the god who had died some four thousand years earlier as Osiris-Saturn. Frequent efforts philosophically to cover over the deep trench of tradition connecting the two gods have failed to divert the mainstream. Such efforts have built a distinctive existential character for Christ. The => ...
570. Settled Sky and Unsettled Mind [Books] [de Grazia books]
... , techniques and facts. One method would be to draw up all parallelisms (and lacks thereof) between the Love Affair and the celestial disasters that contemporary quantavolutionists, particularly Velikovsky, had described as occurring around the time of Homer. This has been done and a close parallelism discovered. A second method would be to translate the myth by psychological and linguistic theories into a set of events that would most closely adhere to the characters, setting, dynamics (plot), and language of the myth. This has been done and the set of events that was most satisfying to the myth was the aforesaid catastrophic period of encounters among Mars, Earth, Venus and Moon. The ...
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