Catastrophism: Man, Myth and Mayhem in Ancient History and the Sciences

221. Introduction; An Improbable Tale (Carl Sagan & Immanuel Velikovsky) [Books]

... Velikovsky believed that these stories were based on memories of actual events, a time when the planets moved on erratic courses, waging battles in the sky and menacing our own planet. Near collisions disturbed the terrestrial axis, removed the Earth from its established path and produced worldwide catastrophes. Velikovsky's research led him to an extraordinary theory about the planet Venus. He claimed that Venus was born explosively from the planet Jupiter only a few thousand years ago, taking on the appearance of a comet, and moving on an Earth-threatening orbit around the Sun. On at least two occasions, he said, the Earth passed through the trailing debris of the comet-like Venus, showers of stone and fire ...

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222. Thoth Vol I, No. 26: November 15, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]

... [ Home ] THOTH -A Catastrophics Newsletter- VOL I, No. 26 November 15, 1997 EDITOR: Michael Armstrong PUBLISHER: Brian Stewart CONTENTS: VELIKOVSKY'S COMET VENUS (10)...................David Talbott Mars Mission: NASA Mapping Info Submitted by Kevin Weinhold Dialogue on Comets................................Amy Acheson Worms living on frozen methane hydrate URL Site Submitted by David Moshinsky- Quote of the day: Not to laugh, not to lament ...

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223. Contents: Worlds in Collision by Immanuel Velikovsky [Books]

... Worlds in Collision © 1950 Immanuel Velikovsky Full Text Not Available Contents Author's Preface Prologue: Chapter 1: In an Immense Universe The Celestial Harmony The Origin Of The Planetary System The Origin of the Comets Chapter 2: The Planet Earth Ice Ages The Mammoths The Ice Age and the Antiquity of Man The Sun Ages The World Ages Part I: VENUS Chapter 1: The Most Incredible Story On The Other Side of the Ocean Chapter 2: Fifty Two Years Earlier The Red World The Hail of Stones Naptha The Darkness Earthquake "13" Chapter 3: The Hurricane The Tide The Battle In The Sky The Comet Of Typhon The Spark The Collapsed Sky Chapter 4: Boiling Earth and Sea ...

Terms matched: 1 - Score: 182 - 04 Jul 2007 - URL: /online/pubs/books/velikovsky/worlds.htm

224. Worlds in Collision by Immanuel Velikovsky [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]

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225. The Cosmic Serpent by Victor Clube and Bill Napier [Journals] [Kronos]

... Biblical flood and other phenomena. Much of this will be familiar, of course, to readers of this review; but there is a blindingly simple insight here which moves the whole package out of the crackpot arena and into that of sober science. The one thing everyone who has heard of Velikovsky "knows" about his theory is that Venus is alleged to have been born out of Jupiter as a comet and later settled into its present orbit. This is dynamically impossible, and so any scientist who understands dynamics looks no further into the theory.** Clube and Napier, however, argue that the original identification of heavenly bodies as gods was with the comets that dominated ...

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226. A Record of Success [Journals] [Pensee]

... , that they are ad hoc rather than the result of deduction from a consistent, unified set of hypotheses. Yet, it has been the ironic lot of some of these scientists to construct truly ad hoc explanations for the unforeseen discoveries which have confirmed Velikovsky's advance claims. (Velikovsky claimed in 1950, on the basis of a hypothesis concerning Venus, that that planet is far hotter than scientists expected. When Venus' 1000 F temperature was discovered, another scientist put forth the purely ad hoc suggestion that the heat may have been caused by a collision between Venus and a moon.) "Seldom in the history of science, " Ralph Juergens said of Velikovsky's predictions, " ...

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227. Revisiting The Temperature Of Venus [Journals] [Velikovskian]

... From: The Velikovskian Vol 1 No 3 (1993) Home | Issue Contents Revisiting The Temperature Of Venus George R. Talbott In KRONOS IV: 2 (1978), I presented a computational procedure and a complete, workable computer program for determining the time-varying temperature of a candescent body exfoliated from a larger body in space. The methods I used are well-known and used daily in engineering heat transfer predictions. They give accurate results. As is appropriate for a professional scientist, I clearly and completely disclosed my methods and my reasoning. There were no unexplained generous assumptions or references to exotic, inaccessible techniques or information. My paper constitutes proof that the temperature of Venus is ...

Terms matched: 1 - Score: 179 - 05 Mar 2003 - URL: /online/pubs/journals/velikov/vol0103/revisit.htm

228. Pens�e [Journals] [SIS Review]

... his work and proposed experiments to test them. ASH - Invaluable documentation of Velikovsky's attempts to have C14 tests made on Egyptian New Kingdom objects: letters to and from institutions and individual scholars spanning the twenty years from 1953 and culminating in the remarkable story of the British Museum's suppression of the results of its tests on material from Tutankhamen's tomb. VENUS AND HYDROCARBONS - A reply to Dr W. T. Plummer of the University of Massachusetts on the composition of Venus' atmosphere. VENUS' ATMOSPHERE - An extensive discussion in the light of the space probe data. A REPLY TO STIEBING - Examines Dr W. H. Stiebing's criticisms of AGES IN CHAOS in the light of the ...

Terms matched: 1 - Score: 179 - 05 Mar 2003 - URL: /online/pubs/journals/review/v0402to3/70pense.htm

229. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]

... From: SIS Workshop Vol 3 No 2 (Oct 1980) Home | Issue Contents Monitor "THE SURFACE OF VENUS"- Scientific American Aug.80 pp.46-57 We recommend this delightful article by G. H. Pettengill, D. B. Campbell & H. Masursky to our readers. It gives the history of the Venus probes and colour printouts of the results of the recent radar mapping of Venus surface features. There are no stylistic "artists impressions", no off-the-cuff comments; instead they give plenty of factual matter and some enlightened speculation. It is likely that Venus possesses several volcanoes but it is not known whether or not these are active. Maxwell ...

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230. Lucifer Cut Down, Part 2 Mars Ch.3 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]

... From "Worlds in Collision" © 1950 by Immanuel Velikovsky | FULL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE Contents Lucifer Cut Down It can be said that the planet Mars saved the terrestrial globe from a major catastrophe by colliding with Venus. Since the days of Exodus and Joshua, Venus was dreaded by the peoples of the earth. For about seven hundred years this terror hung over mankind like the sword of Damocles. Human sacrifices were made to Venus in both hemispheres in order to propitiate her. After centuries of terror, the sword of Damocles was removed from above the heads of mankind, only to be replaced by another. Mars became the dread of the peoples and its return was feared ...

Terms matched: 1 - Score: 178 - 03 Jul 2007 - URL: /online/no-text/velikovsky/worlds/2035-bundahis.htm