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179 pages of results. 241. Solar System Studies [Journals] [Aeon]
... result was a loss of interest in biblical descriptions of catastrophes and a general disregard for tales of other ancient cultures regarding active planetary gods. In 1950, with publication of Immanuel Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision. things began to change In this controversial book Velikovsky listed four eras of domination of heaven and Earth by the planetary gods Saturn, Jupiter, Venus and Mars. He described the last two of these in detail, relying heavily on old writings, mythology and his own revised chronology of ancient Middle East history, plus references to the geological record. His work aroused a heated and negative reaction within several branches of science. In rebuttal he wrote several books on Ages in Chaos, ...
242. Antiquated Textbooks: Redesigning the Solar System [Journals] [Aeon]
... planet's "dawn-to-dusk day" is equal to 176 Earth-days, which makes its day longer than its own year. [6 ] Willy Ley found solace in the fact that Mercury's sunlit side, although it is now known to wander slowly around the planet, is still very hot. [7 ] At 700 kelvins, it is hotter than Venus. [8 ] Ley also assured his readers that whereas before there had been the possibility that the Mercurian atmosphere still lay frozen on the ground on the sunless hemisphere, now that it was known that Mercury rotates, there can be no remnant of the Mercurian atmosphere left since all gases that might have existed would have escaped into space ...
243. Star Words [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... just discovered that throughout the whole range of the Indo-European language group, the words for star are cognate, starting (! ) with the Sanskrit star' (yes!). It is clear that these words are also cognate with many of the names (Ishtar, Astarte, Asherah, Ashteroth) of the goddess identified with the planet Venus. The radiant Venus may have been at one time the only star-shaped light visible in the sky, and the star-words may be derived from the proper name rather than vice versa. A most extraordinary thing however, is that the word disaster' said to derive, via French from the Italian disastro derived in turn from the Latin astrum ...
244. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... From: SIS Review Vol V No 2 (1980/81) Home | Issue Contents Letters Clouded Thinking Sir, There is a very genuine problem in ever disproving the Venus "greenhouse effect" assertions, because of a deep epistemological problem which, sadly, is not appreciated by the average person. The thesis, as I stated in Kronos V:1 , can be maintained, whatever is found on Venus. Let us suppose that my model is precisely correct, as I believe, and that Venusian heat transfer is dominated by forced convection of a volcanic type. Sagan, Pollack, Asimov, etc. will reply that a small thermal flux entering the clouds of ...
245. Thoth Vol I, No. 14: May 21, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... SUN (4 ). .. .. .. .. .. .. David Talbott HYAKUTAKE X-RAYS....................................News Item Submitted by Ian Tresman MORE VENUS DIALOGUE.............................Wal Thornhill New URL Section- Quote of the day: Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate I rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate; And many a ...
246. Heretics, Dogmatists and Science's Reception of New Ideas (Part 2) [Journals] [Kronos]
... "The validity of Sagan's argument is not immediately self-evident, but the post-symposium rebuttal [i .e ., Pensée IVR VII] offered by Velikovskyites to Sagan does not seem sufficient to resurrect Worlds in Collision." The only argument cited agrees with Sagan that a body ejected from Jupiter would be atomized and therefore "not describe the planet Venus particularly well".(78) For balance, the review criticizes Asimov's contention that exoheretics are never right and Storer's argument about McCarthyism explaining Velikovsky's rough reception. An interesting revelation is that at that time Payne-Gaposchkin,(79) whom the Crimson interviewed, was still labeling Velikovsky's books as nonsense while admitting she had not read any of ...
247. Firmament & Chaos by John Ackerman (Book Review). C&C Review 2002:1 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... the pen-name Angiras'. He is a physicist whose interest in catastrophism was inspired by Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision. Following a study of space probe planetary data and also the Rig Veda and Hindu myths he developed his own interpretation of the myths and Solar System history, which he dubs the Velikovsky/Angiras scenario'. In this scenario, Venus is a young planet, born out of a collision between a galactic body and Jupiter about 3300BC. Venus nearly collided with Earth shortly afterwards (shifting its crust by 180º relative to its axis) and then with Mars, which had hitherto occupied an orbit nearer the Sun than ours. The three bodies then engaged in a dance of ...
248. Calendars [Journals] [Kronos]
... months Pachons, Payni, Epiphi, and Mesore. Notice that these "seasons" are not quite in phase with the Nile, since the rise of the Nile would have begun some ten weeks or so before the "inundation" season. Velikovsky has suggested that the reason for this may be that the Egyptian calendar was geared ultimately to Venus, rather than to the seasons and the Sun (365 x 8 5 = 584 days, which, to the nearest day, is the mean synodic period of Venus). The Romans wanted the Egyptians to join with them in recognizing a strictly solar year of 365 1/4 days, and they ordered the Egyptians to use ...
249. Stephen J. Gould And Immanuel Velikovsky: Essays In The Continuing Velikovsky Affair [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... Velikovsky's claim was that the earth 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 the evidence) that the agents of the last two such catastrophes were the planets Venus and Mars. Worlds in Collision supports this final contention by a vast mass of evidence, meticulously documented, from stories handed down all over the world, from the accounts of the Aztecs through the Hebrew Scriptures and the Illiad to the annals of the Chinese emperors. Perhaps the basic theses of Worlds Collision were fundamentally mistaken. But the ...
250. The Saturn Problem [Journals] [SIS Review]
... 102-43 BC) described the struggle between the two gods as one between planets: Saturn is said to have been put in chains by Jupiter to restrain his boundless course and to bind him in the network of the stars' [5 ]. Along with Saturn and Jupiter, three other planetary deities were important in Roman religion: Mars, Venus and Mercury (Ares, Aphrodite and Hermes to the Greeks). By comparison, the gods of the Sun and Moon (Sol and Luna; Greek Helios and Selene), though sometimes identified with the great gods Apollo and Diana, played practically no role at all in the rich mythology of the Romans and Greeks. Even in ...
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