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245 pages of results. 21. News from the Internet [Journals] [SIS Review]
... (the title of his recently completed book). Scott contends in his book that the gravitational doctrines of modern astronomy must give way to a new theoretical framework honoring electricity as the more fundamental force in the heavens. He writes ... , the "queen" of the theoretical sciences. Mainstream cosmologists, whether trained as physicists, mathematicians, or astronomers, consider gravity to be the controlling force in the heavens. From this assumption arose the doctrine of eons-long solar ... recently discovered in deep space. Gravitational models do not achieve comparable success, and often fail completely. Many of astronomy's most fundamental mysteries find their resolution in plasma behavior. Why do cosmic bodies spin, asked the distinguished astronomer Fred ...
22. The Year Of 360 Days, Part 2 Mars Ch.8 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... the Veda literature."6 Here is a passage from the Aryabhatiya, an old Indian work on mathematics and astronomy: "A year consists of twelve months. A month consists of 30 days. A day consists of 60 ... days are assigned to each half-moon period; that this is too much is nowhere admitted."5 In their astronomical works, the Brahmans used ver y ingenious geometric methods, and their failure to discern that the year of 360 ... . 38 Plutarch, Lives, "The Life of Numa," xviii. 39 Cf. Geminus, Elementa astronomiae, viii; cf. also Cleomedes, De motu circulari corporunt celestium, xi. 4. 40 J. ...
23. Solar Eclipses and the Historical Record [Journals] [Horus]
... of the recorded eclipses were actually predictions, not real observations. Newton adds a rationale that many analysts of Chinese astronomy offer; that eclipse announcements could be fabrications created by opponents of the emperor. Newton has also analyzed some Japanese ... describe celestial events; and the historian's favorite event is the solar eclipse, the time and location of which, astronomers claim they can pinpoint backward through several millennia. In these pages, it will be argued that Astronomy's confidence in ... claim that the heavens have behaved with predictable stability within the timeframe of written history, historians have often sought the astronomer's help in dating material that seems to describe celestial events; and the historian's favorite event is the solar eclipse, ...
24. Chapter20_21
... the "Elamitic chariot" is identlcal with the constellation "Chariot of Enmesharra," which the authorities on Babylonian astronomy have identified with beta and zeta Tauri [n11 Gossmann, p. 89; Schaumberger, 3. Erg. ... , of Venus, and finally of Saturn [n18 Let us note that the planets are not given in the astronomical order of their periods, but in the order given by the heptagram, which describes the days of the week ... ]. Chwolson's part of the text goes on: This idol (that hung between earth and heaven) fell down at this point and began to lament Tammuz and to recount his story of sorrows. Then all the idols wept ...
25. Dark Matter [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... into the Black Arts." (3 ) Shapley's educated beliefs notwithstanding, things were not all that settled in astronomy regarding the behavior of celestial bodies with respect to gravitational law. At the time Shapley wrote his attack on Velikovsky ... The Velikovskian Vol 1 No 2 (1993) Home | Issue Contents Dark Matter Charles Ginenthal Just as the medieval astronomers added epicycle after epicycle to Ptolemy's spheres in order to match his geocentric theories with observed planetary movement, so today ... 1930s: Certain celestial motions were not in accordance with Newtonian theory. The first glimmer that something was amiss in astronomy's understanding of the universe came in the 1930s. Caltech astronomer, Fritz Zwicky, an electric wizard of his craft ...
26. The Nature of Venus' Heat [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... high temperature of Venus by straightforward uniformitarian processes. This model worked its way into both scientific thought and nearly every astronomy textbook, becoming the only other theory about Venus' high temperature besides the catastrophist model presented by Velikovsky, in ... | Issue Contents The Nature of Venus' Heat Charles Ginenthal Ever since 1956, when the American team of radio astronomers from the U.S . Naval Research laboratory, headed by Cornell H. Meyer, discovered that "the ... a newborn planet in the early cool-down stages of its development, the scientific community- and, in particular, the astronomers- sought a non-Velikovskian, non-catastrophist explanation for this surprising finding. It was and still is unthinkable to these upholders of ...
27. Cometary Catastrophes and the Ideas of Immanuel Velikovsky [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Catastrophes and the Ideas of Immanuel Velikovsky Victor Clube (c ) VICTOR CLUBE 1984 Victor Clube obtained his doctorate in astronomy at Oxford University in 1959. After teaching for a while he returned to astronomical research, working at several observatories ... Britain and overseas, and is now Senior Principal Scientific Officer at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh. He has contributed numerous papers on astronomical problems to various scientific publications, his research ranging from cosmology through galactic and solar system studies to ... Solar System is completely free of any external influences. It is important to know that this belief underlies most professional astronomers'view of the Universe at present. Cosmic "icebergs" It is this view that is now under attack, and ...
28. Scientifically speaking... [Journals] [Pensee]
... see how these questions are pulled together with special overtones relative to catastrophism- by drawing on only one datum of observational astronomy and by invoking mathematics at the level of elementary arithmetic only. The accurate adjustment of the 19-year lunar calendar cycle ... days long, with eight-digit precision- equivalent to certainty to within one part in one hundred million- that's hard science! Astronomical Stability: When the Earth's rotation around its polar axis and orbital motion around the Sun, and the Moon's orbital ... error introduced by taking each year as either precisely 365 days or as 366 days in the manner indicated. The astronomically-based lunar calendar universally employed before Roman times, and widely followed by large segments of the non-Western world since then, ...
29. The Milankovitch Theory of the Ice Ages [Journals] [Kronos]
... . It was not until nearly half a century later that the Serbian scientist Milutin Milankovitch (1879-1958, Professor of Astronomy, Celestial Mechanics, and Theoretical Physics at the University of Belgrade) developed a mathematical model that went into quantitative ... Milankovitch Theory of the Ice Ages Lynn E. Rose Copyright (c ) 1986 by Lynn E. Rose The astronomical explanation of the ice ages that has come back into favor in recent years depends upon gradual processional changes that lead ... perihelion, in order to see whether the allegedly "empirical" pattern of ice ages and related events fits the astronomically-permitted pattern. Even when astronomical considerations are invoked by geologists, as is the case with the Milankovitch theory, the ...
... enormous implications of the theory for traditional belief. "If his theory should prove to be valid, not only astronomy, but history and a good many of the anthropological and social sciences would need to be reconsidered both for their ... . Kallen, historian of science Harry A. Wolfson, Assyriologist Robert H. Pfeiffer, Egyptologist Walter Federn, astronomer Lloyd Motz, physicist Carl Friedrich von Weiszäcker, astronomer Gordon Atwater, astronomer Walter S. Adams, physicist Valentin ... a book which is so obviously prejudiced and untenable, and calling it scientific." (80) Similarly, astronomor Dean B. McLaughlin wrote to Oursler at the Reader's Digest that Worlds in Collision was "a book that scientists ...
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