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245 pages of results. 391. Planetary Observations of the T'ang [Articles]
... not sure of much of its meaning or significance, the material does point to a Solar System within which are forces that are radically different than those that are acceptable to Astronomy today. Being as specific as possible, the material seems to suggest: 1. the one-time presence or importance of other forces within the Solar System, forces that ... prime subject of this presentation. A famed expert on T'ang China, Edward Schafer, has listed in his work on T'ang astronomy. Pacing The Void , a number of astronomical observations recorded in this dynasty's annals of state. This discussion, I should note, in part summarizes a paper that I hope to see published soon by Aeon, ...
392. Stability of Solid Cores in Gaseous Planets [Journals] [Kronos]
... mass of evidence about cosmic catastrophes in historical times which has been collected and published in the works of Velikovsky, who is now so well-known and respected by serious students of astronomy that there is no need to quote his books in detail. If the solid core of Jupiter was, in fact, ejected, it probably emerged as an incandescent ... and remained abnormally hot for a considerable time. The present high temperature of Venus is claimed by some astronomers to be caused by the "greenhouse" effect of solar heating, but this is disputed by many others. If the high temperature of Venus today is mainly due to remanent internal heat, then the rate of cooling to be expected ...
393. The Cosmic Mountain [Books]
... lands will show the influence of a world-wide tradition. Mesopotamia I have argued that the Egyptian Atum, the solitary god in the deep, is the very figure whom Babylonian astronomy identifies as the planet Saturn. Atum, "the Firm Heart of the Sky," stands "fixed in the middle of the sky upon his support." ... plenty. (57) Saturn, founder of the Golden Age, was the stationary light "upon a foundation," exactly as the Egyptian Atum. Accordingly, Babylonian astronomical texts give Saturn the name Kaainu, the Greek kiun, "pillar." What was this foundation or pillar of Saturn? It was the "mountain of the ...
394. Planets in the Bible: I -- The Cosmology of Job [Journals] [SIS Review]
... , may be more than a blind, poetic, lucky hit. Velikovsky has compared this statement in Job to the ideas of the Surya-Siddhanta , an early Hindu textbook on astronomy: Like the author of the book of Job, who wrote that the earth hangs "upon nothing" (26:7 ), the Surya knew that " ... hinted at the rotation of the Earth on its axis..." (17). Did, then, the wisdom of Job include a hitherto unsuspected body of astronomical knowledge? The tribe of Issachar, which was, according to some Hebrew traditions (see above), the tribe of Job, was noted, down to the ...
395. How the Gods Fly [Books] [de Grazia books]
... make a summer." The whole set of movements must be nevertheless both necessary and possible leaving only an occasional screening anomaly to be justified by causes outside of astrophysics and astronomy. Secondly, there is the problem of apparent movements of celestial bodies. The Phaeacians, proud of their navigational skills, will nevertheless have set the story on a ... human activity, especially in earlier times, has gone into watching the skies, relating the movements and events there to human affairs and celebrating the connections by religious observances, astronomical observations, fairy tales, song, and dance. They would readily acknowledge the occasional episodes of conjunctions of planets, earthquakes, clouds of volcanic dust, lightning storms ...
396. Thoth Vol I, No. 13: May 16, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... of the polar god in the ritual of Altaic and neighboring peoples, suggesting ancient origins in Hindu and Mesopotamian cosmologies; Léopold de Saussure (Les Origines de l; 'Astronomie Chinoise), who showed that primitive Chinese religion and astronomy honor the celestial pole as the home of the supreme "monarch" of the sky; René Guenon ( ... a god of the celestial pole. The renowned Mesoamerican authority, Zelia Nuttall, in Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilization, undertook an extensive review of New World astronomical themes, concluding that the highest god was polar. From Mexico she shifted to other civilizations, finding the same unexpected role of a polar god. Reinforcing the surprising ...
397. Milankovitch's Curves and Palaeoclimatology [Books]
... . It is assumed that the periodicity of the different fluctuations has been, in the past and for millions of years, constant and equal to the calculations made by modern astronomy. Of course, if one of the component curves is incorrect, the resultant curve (directly used by the geochronologists) may present a completely different aspect.There ... already exists in the works of Professor F. Zeuner, 5 with an extensive bibliography. It is enough to know that Milankovitch's curves are based on the changes in the astronomical factors described in the previous section. It is not as important to know whether the curves calculated by Milankovitch are more accurate than those of earlier workers (Croll, ...
... Story of the Heavens, mentioned that a fall of meteorites in 1902 at L'Aigle, Normandy, caused these stones to be removed from the province of geology to that of astronomy! It was a pathetic admission of former ignorance He agreed that meteorites were "evidently pieces broken from some larger object," of a celestial character. The Chaco ... as a ball of blue flame, or, more generally concealed by a vast black or yellow cloud betokening the presence of sulphur fumes, from which shoot terrifyng lightnings. Astronomers in some cases are beginning to remodel their ideas on meteors, but as a class they hug caution and are as fearful of having their dogmas upset as a witch-doctor ...
399. Velikovsky's 360 days/year calendar [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... the effect of changing the earth's orbit. In 1994 however the world witnessed the SL-9 encounter with Jupiter. David Levy was quoted after the event, in effect that the astronomy texts would have to be rewritten after the observed impact. It is submitted that an SL-9 event might just change the orbit of the earth and that two English astronomers ... catastrophic event such as "Water Flood" myth. I know Velikovsky's argument is very dangerous one and his theory is not welcomed to the most of Archaeologist and/or Astronomer. But even if most of his arguments are wrong, I feel some part of his idea is, as if, true. For instance, at chapter 8 ...
400. A Reply to Rose and Vaughan (Forum) [Journals] [Kronos]
... Venus observations". That is, of course, correct; but it is not what I wrote in my letter. My statement was that Huber "did establish the astronomical date". By the "astronomical date" I mean a date arrived at by retrocalculation, using astronomical tables. It may also be the true historical date; ... copies available to us today. But the original tablet, before the omens were added, may have followed a different pattern. It would have been perfectly natural for the astronomer-priests to enter up in one vertical column the dates of the first cycle of observations as they were taken, and then start a fresh column for the second cycle. ...
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