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245 pages of results. 361. Planets might be stars [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... be planetary objects at all, according to a preliminary astrometric study conducted by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh's Allegheny Observatory, the Lunar and Planetary Institute, and the Korea Astronomy Observatory. The study was presented at the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society meeting, October 23-27, in Pasadena, California. The study suggests that ... companions are not planets, but brown dwarfs (objects more massive than planets but smaller than stars), double stars, or low-mass stars. The confusion arises because of the inability of the radial velocity techniques, the basis of the original announcements, to determine the masses of the companions. Radial velocity observations cannot distinguish between a planet in ...
362. Drayson's hypothesis: the Earth's tilt cycle [Journals] [SIS Review]
... centre. Thus, the course traced by the axis was defined as an exact circle centred on the pole of the ecliptic. He adds that nearly every modern work on astronomy follows this definition of the movement of the Earth's axis. The remainder of the chapter describes the precessional effect and the theories proposed to explain it, but concludes with ... ]. Drayson did not actually consider geographical pole shift. He was concerned with changes in the posture of the Earth's rotation axis, that is, changes in obliquity (astronomical pole shift). His works seem to have been gathering dust on library shelves for most of this century, and are no longer referred to in the literature dealing ...
363. Editor's Notes [Journals] [SIS Review]
... from 11th-13th July 1997. It is entitled Natural Catastrophes during Bronze Age Civilisations: Archeological, Geological, Astronomical and Cultural perspectives'. Speakers are: Mark Bailey: cometary astronomy and ancient history Mike Baillie: climate changes during the Bronze Age and cultural implications Victor Clube: cometary astronomy and ancient history Gunnar Heinsohn: catastrophic emergence of civilisation Bruce ... the highly successful SIS 1993 conference and will be held at Fitzwilliam College from 11th-13th July 1997. It is entitled Natural Catastrophes during Bronze Age Civilisations: Archeological, Geological, Astronomical and Cultural perspectives'. Speakers are: Mark Bailey: cometary astronomy and ancient history Mike Baillie: climate changes during the Bronze Age and cultural implications Victor Clube: ...
364. The Disastrous Love Affair of Moon and Mars [Books] [de Grazia books]
... readers of venturesome tastes, who may have a passing acquaintanceship with the history of the theater and ancient Greece, with psychoanalysis, with mythology and the ideas of catastrophism and astronomy. The work was written and offered for publication over a decade ago. Well-founded criticism from several British experts on mythology, particularly Peter James, Malcolm Lowery, Brian ... Book FOREWORD In this book, I extract a dreamy bedroom comedy from Homer's Odyssey, analyze it as a dramatic form of myth, detect that it might have a real astronomical origin, seek this origin in worldwide disasters, and assert that an unconscious parallel occurs between astronomical events and artistic production. The narrative is well suited to readers of ...
365. "Sit Down Before A Fact As A Little Child". File III (Stargazers and Gravediggers) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Stargazers]
... . Gaposchkin, who has spent the last two years combating my theory in numerous articles, she deserves that her chair at Harvard should be called the "Velikovsky Chair of Astronomy." There were laughs, and I had already won the audience a little. At this point I noticed that the few notes I had jotted down as leads ... to me, and I was glad that she was there. There were also three or four friends and followers, who came as guests. My answer was directed to astronomers, geologists, and historians, the first group receiving the main attention. I made it clear that the conflict is not between my theory and astronomical facts, but ...
366. The Comet Venus, Part 1 Venus Ch.8 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... by the Chaldeans. The planet Venus "was said to have a beard."(53) This same technical expression (" beard") is used in modem astronomy in the description of comets. These parallels in observations made in the valley of the Ganges, on the shores of the Euphrates, and on the coast of the ... ) The Hebrews similarly described the planet: "The brilliant light of Venus blazes from one end of the cosmos to the other end."(57) The Chinese astronomical text from Soochow refers to the past when "Venus was visible in full daylight and, while moving across the sky, rivalled the sun in brightness."( ...
367. Chapter XV: Temples Directed to the Stars [Books]
... , a temple consecrated to Sirius ten thousand years ago would view the rising or setting of Sirius now as it did then. But, as a matter of fact, astronomy tells us, as we have seen, that the apparent positions of the stars are liable to change. The change is much greater in the case of the stars ... in the morning or setting in the evening. It is abundantly clear that temples with a greater amplitude than 26 were oriented to stars if they were oriented at all by astronomical considerations. How can this question be studied? What means of investigation are at our disposal? Suppose that the movements of the stars are absolutely regular, that there ...
368. Notes on this issue: Pensee IVR X [Journals] [Pensee]
... has provided one of the most impressive pieces of evidence supporting the astronomical interpretation-all of which renders the megalithic monuments crucial for testing both uniformitarian and catastrophic theories. In "Megalithic Astronomy and Catastrophism," MacKie assesses the evidences with admirable lucidity. As a bonus, he grants us a preview of his forthcoming book on Stonehenge. Velikovsky (p ... any other relics of the human past (excepting, of course, the pyramids and the Sphinx). In recent years these monuments have been proclaimed observatories; and the astronomical sophistication assigned to their builders borders on the fantastic. Dr. Euan MacKie (p . 5) examines these claims and finds them correct, at least in part ...
369. SIS Silver Jubilee Conference: Abstracts [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... fudging, no weird combination of both, it was either / or. This I found very difficult to say the least. In his first two books, one challenging astronomy, and the other geology, how could science have got it so wrong. At that time I hadn't realised that history (mythology) was the third prong of ... Revisionist? - The Outlook for the Next Quarter of a Century (a ) Revisionists are Still Needed (b ) Archaeology to the Rescue? (c ) Scientific and Astronomical Dating Methods (d ) Catastrophic Dating (e ) More Co-operation (f ) More Focus Concluding Comments (a ) Velikovsky's Pillars have Changed b) The SIS Museum ...
370. Heretics, Dogmatists and Science's Reception of New Ideas (Part 2) [Journals] [Kronos]
... thing stated correctly, albeit unwittingly, is that SCV does not bury Velikovsky's ideas. Themes common to both treatments include: . . . anyone with even modest training in astronomy or physics would recognize the theory is patently absurd . . . To the scientist the ideas of Velikovsky are as asinine as the notion that an elephant could hatch from ... be brought to light, and a strong curiosity led him to do this regarding the Hebrew scriptural image of the sun and moon standing still. For Shapley this was no astronomical original, but utter human fantasy, and anyone who took it for such an original must be either a fool or a knave. Velikovsky, no fool, no ...
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