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245 pages of results. 221. The Dawn of Astronomy: A Study of the Temple-Worship and Mythology of the Ancient Egyptians [Books]
... [ CD-Rom Home ] The Dawn of Astronomy A Study of the Temple-Worship and Mythology of the Ancient Egyptians J. Norman Lockyer CONTENTS Title Page Chapter Page Preface vii I. The Worship of the Sun and the Moon 1 II. The First Glimpses of Egyptian Astronomy 9 III. The Astronomical Basis of the Egyptian Pantheon 20 IV. The ... Horizons 40 V. The Yearly Path of The Sun-god 51 VI. The Probable Hor-Shesu Worship 58 VII. Methods of Determining the Orientations of Temples 67 VIII. The Earliest Solar Shrines in Egypt 73 IX. Other Similar Shrines Elsewhere 86 X. The Solar Temple of Amen-Ra at Karnak 99 XI. The Age of the Temple of Amen-Ra at ...
222. Antiquated Textbooks: Redesigning the Solar System [Journals] [Aeon]
... magnetic field. Later, of course, scientists were to argue that the Van Allen Radiation Belt is not a magnetosphere. The 1966 revised edition of the Larousse Encyclopedia of Astronomy, on the other hand, had this to say upon the matter: "More recent studies with Explorer and other satellites have made it clear that the belts [ ... dated do they appear to a contemporary reader." [2 ] Or, as Gerrit Verschuur pronounced in 1981: "If we look at the physical Universe the way astronomers do, we may never really know anything about it. "The recent U.S . planetary probes revealed a shocking paucity of real knowledge about the contents of ...
223. Morning Star* [Journals] [Aeon]
... light to have prompted the ancient Greeks to elevate it to Olympian stature? Sometime around 550 A.D ., the Hindu astronomer Varaha Mihira compiled a manual of observational astronomy known as the Panchasiddhantika. It is known that Varaha Mihira compiled his manual by using the observations not only of his time but also those which had been recorded by ... by haze even in good weather. Even with the aid of a telescope, Mercury remains a very difficult object to observe. As a result, a number of famous astronomers lived their whole lives without ever seeing the planet. One of them was Nicolaus Koppernigk, the Polish astronomer popularly known as Copernicus, who, at the end of ...
224. When Venus Was A Comet [Journals] [Kronos]
... 1 & KRONOS XI:1 ) examined the evidence for a comet-like Venus in ancient Egypt, the present one will continue the search in Sumerian and Mesoamerican sources . MESOAMERICAN ASTRONOMY Sprawling across the modern boundaries of Mexico, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, and El Salvador, the great civilizations of Central America reached heights unparalleled in the ... and religious monuments. Amidst the hieroglyphs and iconography associated with these structures are religious traditions which would appear to be of extreme antiquity. That many of these religious traditions were astronomically oriented seems to be the consensus among scholars. David Kelley, for example, has observed: "It has been clear to all serious students of Mesoamerican culture that ...
225. Shapley, Velikovsky And the Scientific Spirit [Journals] [Pensee]
... on his personal integrity based on disbelief in the conceptions which the books expound had not ceased. I asked for concrete facts. He named Harlow Shapley, quondam professor of astronomy at Harvard, now emeritus. Because I expressed surprise and shock, Dr. Velikovsky offered to send me copies of correspondence between Shapley and Albert Burgstahler, professor of ... about Velikovsky. He seems to be one of our most erudite charlatans." Harlow Shapley in a letter (July 2, 1967) to Albert Burgstahler "All professional astronomers consider Velikovsky a fraud. Can't you find a reputable subject for your research paper?" Harlow Shapley in a letter (March 8, 1969) to Katherine Lindeman ...
226. Thoth Vol III, No. 10: July 30, 1999 [Journals] [Thoth]
... .By Wal Thornhill SAHARA'S ABRUPT DESERTIFICATION - II . . . . . . By Wal Thornhill- PLAYING THE JOKERS By Mel Acheson The house of cards which is modern astronomy contains two jokers. Both lie in the foundation; both are being played; and the house is doomed to collapse. The first joker is the assumption that redshift ... over. The further discovery that redshifts are quantised in cluster-specific sequences tosses it onto the discard pile. The second joker is the assumption that electrical phenomena are insignificant on an astronomical scale, that gravitation alone shapes the structure of the universe. Hannes Alfvén tilted that card with his observations that plasmas are not neutral superconductors: they propagate charge separation ...
227. Velikovsky's Sources Volume Two [Books]
... last more in tune with it than they are with uniformitarianism! On the basis of the text of Herodotus (we are not allowed to introduce any arguments from physics or astronomy, remember!), this view cannot really be disproved. On the other hand, neither can the Sothic Cycle view! One can argue that Herodotus here has ... the text. Nevertheless, Herodotus does make mistakes (in ii.31 he says that the Nile above Elephantine flows west to east) and he does have some curious astronomical ideas (in ii.24 he tells us that during the winter the sun is driven out of his usual course by the storms), so that it is ...
228. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... of times smaller than normal atoms - so small that they would fall between the ordinary atoms of a solid .. ', was published on All Fools' Day. ASTRONOMY Crumbling Comets New Scientist 19.2 .00, p. 23 and 5.8 .00, p. 5, Science Frontiers 125, Sep. - ... . 99, p. 1 Astronomers believe that most of the comets recently discovered close to the Sun are the shattered remains of a single giant comet, the break up of which may be the one observed by the Greek historian Ephorus in 372 BC. Another comet, the brightest seen in the last three years, exploded in bits as ...
229. Observations At Kintraw [Journals] [Kronos]
... . McCreery, A. J. Hastie, and T. Moulds Copyright (C ) 1982 by Cambridge University Press. Editor's Note: This article has been reprinted from Astronomy in the Old World, ed. by D. Heggie, with the permission of the authors and Cambridge University Press. - LMG ABSTRACT We have made six visits ... the Kintraw site which has been claimed by Professor Alexander Thom as a prehistoric astronomical observatory used for the detection of the midwinter solstice. This claim has been disputed on several grounds, notably that the foresight is not visible from the backsight on the ledge overlooking the menhir. From the results of our observations at the backsight we contend that this ...
230. The Velikovskian Upheaval: A Temporocentric Challenge [Journals] [Kronos]
... the future and instills confidence about the past; to know the present is to know the past and the unfoldment of the future. Velikovsky's interpretations reverse the customary procedure in astronomy for determining what occurs in the heavens by comprehending what happens upon Earth; Earth is not the universal medium for projection into space. Instead, astronomical events project themselves ... get away with it. No matter how many of his predictions prove correct, it will see him dead first.-Charles Fair Velikovsky is today what Copernicus was for astronomical understanding several centuries ago; both scientists challenge a basic mooring to which fundamental cosmological ideas have been anchored. Copernicus assaulted the geocentric theory of the cosmos; Velikovsky challenges ...
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