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245 pages of results. 311. The New York Velikovsky Centenary Conference [Journals] [SIS Review]
... [2 ] you will find: On March 28th, 1950, Gordon Atwater was summarily fired from his positions as curator of Hayden Planetarium and Chairman of the Department of Astronomy, American Museum of Natural History. Five days later This Week published Atwater's review of Worlds in Collision. It was, in part, Atwater's refusal to withdraw that ... held no academic qualifications in astronomy but being highly impressed with his organising ability and imagination, invited him to become its peacetime director. His acceptance incurred bitter resentment from professional astronomers, who were opposed to one of the plum jobs in their field going to someone not one of us'. These gentlemen (and ladies; do not forget ...
312. Are The Venus Tablets Missing?, Atwater Thrown Overboard. File I (Stargazers and Gravediggers) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Stargazers]
... he met with an accident and broke a rib. For historical information on my work, Kaempffert dutifully met Professor Otto Neugebauer of Brown University, whose specialty is the ancient astronomy of Babylonia and Greece. The editor of The New York Times Book Review decided that Kaempffert should not speak with me personally, and thus the meeting with Kaempffert, ... endeavor. On the occasion of an additional consultation I had with Professor Motz, he told me that Kaempffert, who wanted to check several points concerning my theory with an astronomer, had called at Columbia University and chanced to come to Motz. The latter could tell him only that he had gone carefully through the pages of the Epilogue that ...
313. Writing The Epilogue. File I (Stargazers and Gravediggers) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Stargazers]
... the problems solved and the new problems that presented themselves in the fields of history and chronology, Bible criticism, development of religion, mass psychology, geology, paleontology, astronomy, and physics. I wrote: Having discovered some historical facts and having solved a few problems, we are faced with more problems in almost all fields of science ... this work is committed to us? So I finished my book. Originally I had written another chapter and had let it be set. I foresaw the arguments of the astronomers, and I intended to meet them. The phenomena I described were deduced by me from ancient literature and folklore. I could, of course, remain in my ...
314. Thoth Vol VI, No 4: June 30, 2002 [Journals] [Thoth]
... are at once revolutionary and far-reaching. In addition to necessitating a drastic revision in our understanding of the historical determinants of ancient myth and religion, the central tenets of modern astronomy and a host of allied sciences would be called into question as well. With stakes this high, it is imperative that we endeavor to gain further insight into the ... Evening Star on any given night? Would anyone in their right mind be inclined to view Venus as an agent of destruction and impending doom? David Grinspoon, a NASA astronomer and the author of a very entertaining history of Venus observation, offered the following summary of the ancients' preoccupation with Venus "Venus must always have seemed a unique ...
315. Sightings - Astrology/Astronomy [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... From: SIS Internet Digest 2000:1 (May 2000) Home | Issue Contents Sightings - Astrology/Astronomy Kronia List, 27 Jan 2000 I wanted to comment on this when it first came by. Am involved in a major project now & haven't time to post much on Kronia, but I wanted to run this by y'all ... Astronomy and the War Against Time by William Sullivan (Three Rivers Press, 1996). Sullivan talks about the "technical language of myth" designed to record and transmit astronomical observations of great complexity, particularly those connected with the precession of the equinoxes. From his study of Inca myth, the author concludes that animals are stars, gods ...
316. Thoth Vol I, No. 14: May 21, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... connection? And it would show a coherence of the collective memory beyond anything historians would have thought possible. The answer is clear, and it is stunning. Wherever ancient astronomies preserved detailed images of the planet Saturn, it seems that Saturn was declared to have formerly occupied the celestial pole! The priestly astronomy of Zoroastrianism knew the planet Saturn ... sun, Atum-Ra as Saturn, Atum-Ra atop the world pole. There is a way to test the integrity of the ancient ideas we have reviewed. Are there any independent astronomical traditions enigmatically connecting the outermost visible planet to the celestial pole? This would be particularly significant because nothing in the appearance of Saturn today could conceivably suggest such a connection ...
317. Ancient Calendars [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... extract in C & C Workshop 1987:1 M Gallant covers a lot of ground. Part of his talk reflects the Thom/Hawkins/Hoyle attitude to supposed megalithic astronomy. Another area dealt with is the history of calendars. The third aspect is the supposed light thrown on catastrophic theories by ancient calendars. It is suggested that calendars ... were slightly different. The annual Nile inundation was the key. But consider: if the flood came on a really regular basis, there would be no need for the astronomers' intervention. A society with minimal numeracy could simply count the days from flood to flood. On the other hand, if the season was less regular, the ...
318. Mysteries of the Sacred Universe [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... sophisticated system, with multiple levels of meaning that encode at least four different astronomical, geographical, and spiritual world models. By viewing the text in the light of modern astronomy, Richard Thompson shows how ancient scientists expressed exact knowledge in apparently mythological terms. Comparison with the ancient traditions of Egypt and the Near East shows early cultural connections between ... ancient cosmology. Mysteries of the Sacred Universe shows that the cosmology of the Bhagavata Purana is a sophisticated system, with multiple levels of meaning that encode at least four different astronomical, geographical, and spiritual world models. By viewing the text in the light of modern astronomy, Richard Thompson shows how ancient scientists expressed exact knowledge in apparently mythological ...
319. Flawed Search [Journals] [Kronos]
... , UK, in the Department of Archaeology. Reprinted from Nature 284 (24 April 1980) with the permission of both the publisher and author. In Search of Ancient Astronomies arose from a series of lectures given by the contributors in California in 1975, and is, according to its editor, "the first attempt to present systematically to ... scientific findings of archaeo-astronomy"; it is unfortunate, therefore, that the majority of the chapters show some misuse or misunderstanding of archaeological data and imprecision in the demonstration of astronomical alignments. The first chapter by Krupp himself is presented as a non-mathematical introduction to practical astronomy. This is necessary for the understanding of subsequent chapters, and is in ...
320. Poles Uprooted, Part 2 Mars Ch.7 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... our time did not correspond to direct observations, nor to the calculations made at the moment of erection of the monument on which these charts are pictured."2 Modern astronomy does not admit, or even consider, the possibility that at some historical time east and west as well as south and north were reversed. Consequently, the first ... According to Seneca the Great Bear had been the polar constellation. After a cosmic upheaval shifted the sky, a star of the Little Bear became the polar star. Hindu astronomical tablets composed by the Brahmans in the first half of the first millennium before the present era show a uniform deviation from the expected position of the stars at the time ...
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