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245 pages of results. 501. Thoth Vol I, No. 24: October 20, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... revolution around the sun changed, and vast nations were devastated. Then, from the ensuing chaos, the world was born anew under an altered celestial order. CALENDAR Sacred astronomy throughout Mesoamerica was particularly conscious of the heliacal rising of Venus, the planet's first annual pre-dawn appearance (beginning its phase of greatest brilliance due to its proximity to the ... careful and exacting timekeepers, there may have been ritualistic reasons for these changes which overrode the observations. It seems as if another anomaly rears its head: the ancient Mesoamerican astronomers, so admired for their accurate record keeping of Venus' motions, do not have Venus moving on its present course. Yet Aveni assures us that the Maya developed ...
502. Velikovsky: A Personal Chronological Perspective of His Final Years [Journals] [Aeon]
... to meet, it would have been Gordon Atwater, who was dismissed from his position on 1 April 1955 as Curator of the Hayden Planetarium and Chairman of the Department of Astronomy of the American Museum of Natural History in New York for daring to publicly discuss Velikovsky's predications. He was given a standing ovation by the conferees. By a quirk ... , but feeling that a modicum of wisdom would be more appropriate, I hurriedly made introductions, thereby averting what might have been an intriguing situation. Mulholland, a dynamical astronomer from the University of Texas, was then on leave at the Astronomical Section of the Paris Observatory, Meudon, and admitted that he had returned to the United States ...
503. Iraqi Crater & Immanuel Velikovsky [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... as Harlow Shapley were heavily involved. It could be said that Shapley became angry even to the point of incoherence. During my stay in Princeton, Velikovsky attended the weekly astronomy seminars, whether to learn something of astronomy itself or to learn what made astronomers tick, I never really discovered. Perhaps because I couldn't see what the fuss was ... far-sighted summary of Velikovsky's place in science: "Not long before my visit in Princeton [in 1953], an eruption over a seemingly trivial affair had occurred among American astronomers. Immanuel Velikovsky published a book with the title Worlds in Collision in which he claimed that a sequence of dynamically impossible events had shaped society circa 3000 B.C ...
504. Thoth Vol IV, No 9: May 31, 2000 [Journals] [Thoth]
... belief will collapse. Newton developed the concept of gravitation in 1666, eight decades before Franklin flew his kite and more than two centuries before Maxwell wrote his famous equations. Astronomy developed in the gaslight era before electricity was known. In this volume we intend to show that something is missing from the standard treatments of planetary history and celestial dynamics ... , great bolts of lightning passed between planets. Velikovsky's approach was interdisciplinary. He used the insights of a professional psychoanalyst and the methods of a trained historian to investigate the astronomical, mythical, and religious traditions of diverse cultures. He discerned deeply rooted themes which others had failed to see. These cultural records told the story of traumatic events ...
505. Thoth Vol I, No. 1: January 25, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... along the world axis. The myth of a central sun or motionless sun at the celestial pole. Identification of this ancient "sun" with the planet Saturn in early astronomies. A radiant city or temple of heaven, providing the prototype for the sacred habitation on earth. Global memories of a star-goddess with long-flowing hair. An angry goddess ... themes of what has been called the "Saturn Theory." In the broadest sense, what I have proposed is an explanation of the myth-making epoch as a whole. Astronomers and astrophysicists, historians, anthropologists, archaeologists and students of ancient myth and religion are asked to reconsider the most common assumptions about ancient history, including many that have ...
506. New Panchasiddhantika available [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... to be better than the previous two versions. This is from the Preface and Introduction: "The Pancasiddhantika of the sixth century astronomer Varahamihira is a major work on mathematical astronomy of early India. The work is particularly significant for the fact that, besides providing an insight into the level of contemporary development in the discipline, it forms also ... and this later version of the Panchasiddhantika looks to be better than the previous two versions. This is from the Preface and Introduction: "The Pancasiddhantika of the sixth century astronomer Varahamihira is a major work on mathematical astronomy of early India. The work is particularly significant for the fact that, besides providing an insight into the level of contemporary ...
507. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Review]
... British Museum Press, £18.99 Historians and archaeologists write about the most recent evidence from a number of early civilisations for the existence of a universal mother goddess. Astronomy Before the Telescope edited by Christopher Walker, British Museum Press, £25 The most comprehensive survey of early world astronomy to date, packed with chapters by experts in ... within which the catastrophic events described in myth can be explained. Thornhill covers an amazing range of phenomena from plasma physics to mythical symbols and presents convincing electrical explanations for observed astronomical phenomena which astrophysicists have ad hoc dabs at. Thornhill explains our Sun, surface scars on the Moon and Mars, evidence that Venus is a young planet and much ...
508. Site Destructions and Discontinuities in the Bronze Age [Articles]
... on, man and boy, for about four to five years before it finally lumbered out sixty pages long, Current Anthropology, and the more I read in the early astronomy, the more I realised they were talking about something that they had apparently been frightened about. - Can you hear me at the back there? I've got a ... their walls, with obviously ritual, temple things. Among the murals they have got my fire bull festival. Many of these things start with deer and you who are astronomers can perhaps tell me something about which I have wondered for a long time, whether just before Taurus, there was in earlier periods a stag as a heliacal rising ...
509. Phobos And Deimos [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... and Phobos were correctly translated as "Fear and Flight," respectively. (Hall's remarks are reprinted in Harlow Shapley and Helen E. Howarth's, A Source Book in Astronomy, page 323.) I urge writers in this area to be much more careful about their handling of these two names. My remarks in KRONOS VII:2 ... of the Universe, page 258), and Gerald Hawkins (Splendor in the Sky, page 127). It is interesting that Hawkins describes Phobos and Deimos as "astronomical impossibilities; they could not have condensed from material in the original proto-planet like the other moons in the solar systems." He also states: "Perhaps they are ...
510. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Review]
... verdict of "not proven". It seems that at the time of writing the verdict on the Solar System accused of long-term stability, is from the testimony of dynamical astronomy "not proven". Making this point at the Glasgow conference, Professor Roy felt that current retro-calculations could only be relied upon for five to ten thousand years. ... that the renaissance of scholarly interest in Velikovsky dates from that time. The new edition contains some fresh material by Dr Stecchini, who has considerably expanded his essay on cuneiform astronomical records to take account of some comments on the first edition by Malcolm Lowery (see discussion elsewhere in this issue). The contributions by de Grazia, Juergens and ...
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