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245 pages of results. 491. TOWARDS A SCIENCE OF MYTHOLOGY: VELIKOVSKY'S CONTRIBUTION [Journals] [Aeon]
... is this finding for modern science, gleaned as it is from the most obscure niches of Greek mythology? It is the far-reaching ramifications of this finding for ancient history and astronomy, of course, which have long intrigued Velikovsky's admirers and incensed his detractors. Stated simply: If the spectacle of Venus as a comet-like body marauding about the heavens ... and von Dechend once again turned a deaf ear: "The sun is not in the habit of rising on the same spot every day, and it needs no profound astronomical knowledge to become aware of this fact." (17) How, then, did the authors of Hamlet's Mill explain their findings? Here the authors credited the ...
492. Discussion Questions From the Floor [Journals] [Aeon]
... satellite of Saturn may possess a spin rate of about 9 hours, so that its rotation is not synchronous with that of its primary. See Facts on File Dictionary of Astronomy, (NY, 1985), p. 276. The forthcoming Voyager II encounter with Neptune can also determine whether or not this analysis of satellite rotation is correct ... the Revised Chronology seems to parallel my own to a great degree. While I have read Worlds in Collision and Earth in Upheaval, I was only passingly interested in the astronomical theory. As he says, it is extremely difficult, given the evidence, to say with certainty that either Venusian, Martian or (as more people are beginning ...
493. Thoth Vol V, No 2: Jan 31, 2001 [Journals] [Thoth]
... In 1913 Henry Norris Russell independently repeated this exercise. This plot is therefore named the Hertzsprung-Russell (HR) diagram, and is one of the first topics presented in introductory astronomy courses. It is clear that the HR diagram is a plot of actual observations - not something deduced from theory. So, any viable model of the workings of ... "dark matter" article: http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0012/03vlt/ Regards, Andy Doerkson THE ARTICLE BEGINS: An international team of astronomers has succeeded in mapping the "dark" (invisible) matter in the Universe, as seen in 50 different directions from the Earth. They find that, within ...
494. The Ching Hsing [Journals] [Horus]
... identify Venus specifically as the "Orb of Splendor". More material is forthcoming on the Ching Hsing; but first, using Needham's narrative, let us see how conventional astronomy explains the phenomenon. Needham introduces Ssu Ma Chien, an historian from the Former Han Dynasty, who has defined the Ching Hsing; "When the sky is serene ... Hsing by Charles Raspil An ancient Chinese astrological principle in use during the Former Han Dynasty (205 B.C . -23 A.D .) suggests that Chinese astronomers then believed that the planet Venus could deviate from its expected position in the sky and that it had already done so in earlier centuries of their ancient history. The ...
495. Forum [Journals] [Pensee]
... catastrophic discharges probably set up a Pavlovian reaction, without his realizing it, and caused terror that another unorthodox idea of gigantic proportions might disrupt the serenity of the temples of astronomy. Professor L. D. Kaplan apparently experienced a similar reaction on another occasion concerning his views on the atmosphere of Venus, which evoked surprising and violent opposition ( ... A Missed Opportunity?" Pensee, fall, 1973, p. 19): roll and yaw of the ship may make it too unstable a platform for such accurate astronomic observations. But this subject touches on one of the strangest interludes in all of the history of science, one which has been ignored by modern textbooks, thus to ...
496. Pot Pourri [Journals] [SIS Review]
... they did so is not proved. Critics are more willing to accept a possible Chinese discovery of Australia, but claim this information was already within the public domain. Bad Astronomy Another useful recent book is Bad Astronomy by astronomer Philip Plait [16]. Subtitled Misconceptions and Misuse Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing Hoax', it ... help you avoid elementary errors in considering what happens both out in space' and here at home. For example, would water really swirl down a drain clockwise north of the equator and anticlockwise south of it? Is the far side of the moon lit by the sun? Does the moon appear larger when near the horizon? Are stars ...
497. On Method [Books] [de Grazia books]
... regalia. Failing to win a subsequent judgment, the scientific petitioner may resort to a court of different jurisdiction, another discipline-history of science, say, rather than astronomy. Or he may appeal to a higher court, the cosmological and philosophic jurisdictions, for instance. If these resources are denied him, or give judgment against him ... of study in universities; exceptions are rare and usually to be found in schools with a religious bias. Writings on cosmogony are likely to run off the pens of elderly astronomers, "born-again" physicists, and uncomfortable priests. A discipline without a method is a risible contradiction in terms, but such happens to be the situation. Since ...
498. News from the Internet [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... in its atmosphere. No Methane Oceans. Neither Cassini nor Huygens have observed methane oceans. Standard Theory after Huygens. From Toby Owen, a scientist from Honolulu's Institute for Astronomy: "There must be some source of methane inside Titan which is releasing the gas into the atmosphere. Otherwise it would have all disappeared." This has led ... move them would be small potatoes in comparison. Entire continents would be the coherent "pieces" in a larger-scale disruption. The disrupting force would have to be something of astronomical proportions. Velikovsky already proposed other planets sweeping by and causing somewhat similar commotions. Let's take a clue instead from the Electric Universe: Instead of moving the Americas, ...
499. Cosmic Catastrophes and the Ballgame of the Sky Gods in Mesoamerican Mythology [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Yet many more ballgame legends exist which document the inseparable connection between ballgame ritual and natural catastrophes. What is more, new astronomical evidence and discoveries, in particular in cometary astronomy, indicate that our planet and ancient civilisations were repeatedly punctuated by cosmic debris [28]. These new research findings demand that both sceptical historians and evolutionary anthropologists re-assess ... sun' [9 ]. In spite of these differences, almost all scholars start from the assumption that the native Indians modelled their ballgame on the same regular and harmonious astronomical events which can be observed today. In this paper I will document that the mythological record of the Mesoamerican peoples link the origins of the ritual ballgame to natural disasters ...
500. Sagan's fourth problem: Terrestrial Geology And Lunar Craters (Carl Sagan & Immanuel Velikovsky) [Books]
... Waldrop and Richard Kerr in an article titled "IRAS Science Briefing" in Science, Vol. 222, (1983), p. 916, claim that the Infrared Astronomy Satellite found a vast ring of dust between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Velikovsky also pointed out in Earth in Upheaval, p. 288, back in 1955 ... moves through the same region of space that the Earth does, and consequently, should have about the same influx of cosmic dust on its surface as on the Earth. Astronomers had been concerned that a lunar spaceship upon landing would sink into the supposed huge amount of dust that should have accumulated on the surface of the Moon in about 4 ...
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