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... more. It is noteworthy that the illustration of the very first astronomical point which we have to consider brings out the fact that it is impossible to disconnect Egyptian mythology from astronomy. In the southern half of the zodiac, the lower part is occupied by stars represented in the guise of different mythological personages, sailing along in boats; and ... China and India was as a sealed book, and the hieroglyphics of -Egypt and the wedges of Babylonia were still unread, we had to depend for the earliest traces of astronomical observation upon the literatures of Greece and Syria, and according to these sources the asterisms first specialised and named were as follows: - - The Great Bear Job ( ...
... one of his assertions" --simply unwarranted dogmatism spiced with a bit of the numbers racket, rhetorical invoking of mathematics. Patrick Moore, who has written excellent popular works on astronomy, gave a quite unfair view of Velikovsky when he wrote that "to Dr. Velikovsky, astronomical time is to be measured in thousands of years rather than in ... " and that "the fossil record of the Earth goes back a great deal further than Biblical times" [256:59, 6i] --as though Velikovsky had ever questioned that. In an editorial in a science fiction magazine [13] Velikovsky's claim of carbohydrates in the atmosphere of Venus was criticized; Velikovsky never made such a claim ...
323. Solar System Today [Journals] [SIS Review]
... 1980/81) Home | Issue Contents Solar System Today Subscriptions: £4 per year (6 issues) .. . is the bi-monthly news journal of solar system astronomy for the amateur and professional astronomer and those who wish to keep informed about new developments in this exciting field. Each issue contains news, notes and reports on current ... system research, discoveries and results with special emphasis on new results obtained by interplanetary spacecraft, regular features including minor planet notes and comet notes with news of discoveries, recoveries and new research, solar reports and meteor news - plus notices of new books relevant to solar system astronomy. Two issues each year contain longer news reports and research papers ...
324. Shifting Poles. Ch.8 Poles Displaced (Earth In Upheaval) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Earth in Upheaval]
... it. The state of the case is shortly this: The hypothesis of a perfectly rigid crust containing liquid, violates physics by assuming preternaturally rigid matter, and violates dynamical astronomy . . . ." 6 Lord Kelvin admitted, however, that a larger shifting of the poles would be possible if the earth had a solid nucleus in the ... such as extended rearrangement of land and water."1 For decades in the second half of the nineteenth century many scientists participated in the debate centring round this theme. Astronomers and mathematicians asked the geologists what, in their opinion, could have caused such a shifting of the terrestrial poles. The best the geologists could offer was the re-disposition ...
325. Worlds in Collision in Macmillan's Catalogues [Journals] [Kronos]
... "Worlds in Collision" will restore your "good name" and "standing" completely. The same two requirements were stated by Dean B. McLaughlin, Professor of Astronomy at the University of Michigan, in his May 20 diatribe to Brett. In conclusion, Edmondson next reiterated the closing of his first letter, requesting that his name ... to the East Coast, I made it a point to go to New York to look them over. The Velikovsky correspondence file contains the page from the catalogue that the astronomer Wasley S. Krogdahl, then of Northwestern University,(13) attached to his May 15, 1950 letter to Boyd T. Harris of the College Department. ...
326. A Challenge to the Integrity of Science? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... , still before the publication of the book, had printed a denunciation of Velikovsky's views by five experts in the fields of archaeology, oriental studies, anthropology, geology and astronomy. Shapley was then president of Science News Letter and none of the five had, of course, read the book. Gordon Atwater was in 1949 curator of the ... atmosphere must consist largely of hydrocarbons. Both these views were directly contradicted by the data on the temperature of Venus and on the composition of its atmosphere which were available to astronomers in 1950. As early as 1950 Velikovsky had selected these two deductions as the most crucial tests for the validity of his whole method. Another important conclusion which he ...
327. Focus [Journals] [SIS Review]
... find out how to do it simply, go out and ask a farmer or an engineer - they have to do things." The difficult way of doing things in astronomy, according to Dr Milton, was to use the force of gravity, which had led to "the most revolting concept that has come out of astronomy" - ... weakest force you can find (gravity), and then you get a lot of stuff that produces that force, and then it can accomplish the sort of thing that astronomers see. It would be much simpler to take a strong force like electricity." Dr Milton's talk was devised as a tribute to two unrecognised pioneers of electrical astronomy ...
328. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... price for failure. Pole Shifts Dismissed source: The Unexplained, pp. 1641-5 In an article on "A topsy-turvy world" Nigel Henbest (better known as New Scientist's astronomy writer) gives a run-down on theories of pole shifts. Or, to be more precise, two out-of-date and one modern theories. The out-of-date ones are those of ... Jupiter" and the significance of Jupiter's radio noises for his theories. Finally, Leroy Ellenberger's paper on the reactions to Worlds in Collision tells of recent work done confirming Velikovsky's astronomical ideas and dishes out some punishment at his principal detractors, notably Sagan. We understand that there are to be further issues of Frontiers of Science discussing Velikovsky's theories - ...
329. Transcript of the Evening Session of the A.A.A.S. Symposium [Articles]
... us on the platform. I will add a little filler commentary while they're doing so. I'd like to point out that this Symposium has been sponsored not only by the Astronomy Section of the A.A .A .S . but also by the Section on History and Philosophy of Science. It's for that reason that the co- ... But that does not make the scientific questions right or wrong. [applause] VELIKOVSKY: Were it really the sins of the fathers? The fathers, starting with the astronomers of Harvard University, at that time, some of them no more alive, were never really exposed by me by printing their letters to my published, where they ...
330. Focus [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... writes that a professor of Semitics told Sagan that while the Biblical scholarship, Egyptology and so on in Worlds in Collision seemed to be rubbish, he was impressed by the astronomy. Gribbin adds: - "to an astronomer, while the astronomy is clearly rubbish... the wealth of Biblical material and so on is impressive and daunting ... p.10) Mr. Gribbin has a "champion" to refute Velikovsky (he doesn't do this himself) and this shining knight is one Carl Sagan, "astronomer". We are told that Sagan writes that a professor of Semitics told Sagan that while the Biblical scholarship, Egyptology and so on in Worlds in Collision seemed to ...
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