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245 pages of results. 551. The Orientation of the Pyramids [Journals] [Pensee]
... " In a lecture delivered in April 1966 at Yale University on the subject, "The Pyramids, Their Purpose and Orientation," I stressed that the entirety of Egyptian astronomy, as G.A . Wainwright brought out, was developed with the celestial position of the terrestrial axis playing the governing role. Chinese astronomy was so oriented, ... Immanuel Velikovsky. This first appeared in Yale Scientific Magazine (April, 1967). A little consideration reveals that, should the terrestrial axis be turned tomorrow into a new astronomical direction by any angle of inclination toward the ecliptic, the Great Pyramid would remain properly oriented to the north and south poles; there would be a new celestial pole ...
552. Dodwell [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... to apply for canonization, but they didn't want any part of him- they told him to play in traffic. Later on, Setterfield (who was head of the Astronomy Club of South Australia), found out about it and tried to collect his data to analyse it. He had big problems with Dodwell's family who wouldn't give up ... wrote: From SIS Review, Vol. VI: 1-3, p. 77: This is an unpublished book by the late G. F. Dodwell, a Cambridge-trained astronomer who was the Government Astronomer of South Australia until 1952 and who spent the last 14 years of his life correlating all of the ancient gnomon (shadow-stick) observations of ...
553. Venus, Mars ... and Saturn [Journals] [SIS Review]
... ] - is at odds with the evidence, ignoring as it does the full context of the Venus-comet imagery. If the ancient testimony surrounding Venus is at odds with modern astronomy, that surrounding the ancient sun-god is more incongruous yet. In Neolithic rock art, pictures of the sun' constitute a dominant motif, yet these pictures do not ... ]. The Saturn theory is an attempt to make sense of the testimony bequeathed to us by our forebears in the form of myth, ritual, literature, art, astronomical records and language. In sacred lore from different cultures around the world, certain mythical traditions are to be found virtually everywhere - e.g . the Creation, ...
554. Solomon and Sheba [Journals] [SIS Review]
... in tomb 353, particularly the ceiling of Chamber A [75]. Senenmut's ceiling is the earliest astronomical ceiling known. We are reminded again of Solomon's encyclopaedic knowledge of astronomy and calendars (Wisdom 7:17-19). The ceiling is divided into two parts by transverse bands of texts, the central section of which contains the names Hatshepsut ... carefully polished, carved and given a coat of red varnish, the lid was never completed. Was Senenmut/Solomon really meant to have been buried in it? Senenmut's Astronomical Ceiling The versatility of Senenmut is revealed in the paintings of his funerary complex. As Grimal notes [69]'[Senenmut's] constructions show that he was an ...
555. Some Comments on "Still Facing Many Problems" (Vox Populi) [Journals] [Kronos]
... : 1, pp. 1-15. 14. KRONOS X: 1, pp. 26-40. 15. KRONOS X: 1, p. 11. THE AXIOMS OF ASTRONOMY To the Editor of KRONOS: A renowned British physicist recently wrote to me concerning his confrontation with editors of a popular astronomy magazine. He stated that "there is ... how could Velikovsky be so correct in his various corroborated advance claims and their consequences, yet so presumably wrong elsewhere? The surface temperature of Venus is certainly much higher than astronomers and astrophysicists of 1950 expected. And there is the matter of the peculiar resonance in Venus' axial rotation with the Earth, to say nothing of the slow retrograde ...
556. News from the Internet [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... quite surrounds her'.[3 ] He does not comment on the fact that Parearau was unequivocally regarded as a female instead of a male deity in M~ori astronomy, leaving his readers with the idea that Parearau is a good match for the masculine Saturnian deities of the ancient Greeks and Babylonians. Unfortunately, Talbott also omits to ... than an intelligent guess. There is no direct testimony from the side of the Pawnee to confirm the identification. We read: Although this identification is far from certain, astronomer Von Del Chamberlain has shown that it fits well with the celestial circumstances surrounding the only Pawnee Morning Star sacrifice for which we know the date with sufficient accuracy to link ...
557. Asimov's Guide to the Velikovsky Affair [Journals] [Kronos]
... : "Scientists are now engaged in an active boycott of the Macmillan books . . . I trust you can be dissuaded." Fred Whipple, then chairman of the astronomy department at Harvard University, wrote to Doubleday's subsidiary, The Blakiston Company: "Newsweek has unwittingly done the Doubleday Company a considerable amount of harm. They have made ... ; he readily admits to being a genius. But interfacer Asimov gives this much in return: "The most effective critic of Velikovsky is, in my opinion, Cornell astronomer Carl Sagan, and as far as I know, he [supposedly in contrast to Velikovsky] has no emotional, willing-to-die-for-him supporters except me." Nevertheless, as ...
558. Of Lessons, Legacies, and Litmus Tests: A Velikovsky Potpourri (Part One) [Journals] [Aeon]
... "criticism" in Kronos had I not lost confidence in the Editor-in-Chief's editorial judgment and objectivity; for instance, when Kronos X:3 carried James McCanney's "Axioms of Astronomy," the Editor-in-Chief refused to accept (1 ) my rejoinder to McCanney, (2 ) a revised version of it, or (3 ) anyone else's rejoinder ... near collisions in Worlds in Collision because gravitational torques are not comparable to hard impacts. Cardona also exhibits extreme naivete in discounting several orders of magnitude for the time scale of astronomical processes. For example, Van Flandern's exploding planet millions of years ago cannot be down-dated as Cardona would have it because the dating is based on the periods of first ...
559. A Personal Report on, and Irreverent Look at, the World Conference 'Planetary Violence in Human History' Portland, Oregon, January 3-5, 1997 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... from year to year, the solstices, eclipses, etc., based on the novel observation that all was ordered and followed laws. Thales was the first to study astronomy; he is said to have calculated in advance that there would be an eclipse on the day of the battle against the Medes (May 28, 585, according ... down, one from northern Greece, the other from southern Germany. In the latter, a woman was being beheaded, apparently for predicting the end of the world. Astronomers are not encouraged to talk about comets and the end of the world. However the press are picking up things Clube and colleagues are saying. Clube is a frequent ...
560. Babylonians and Persians: The Business Archives [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... B.C . - A.D . 75. Providence, Brown Univer-sity Press, 1971. 3. J. Kepler (AD 1571-1630) wrote Epitome of Copernican Astronomy, part of which is included in Great Books of the Western World 16: Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, pp. 845-1108. 4. C. Ptolemy. ... read the Ptolemaic Canon, written in the 2nd century AD [1 ]; that the Canon listed the kings and that its author, Claudius Ptolemy, was a noted astronomer, geographer and historian. Amazingly much of his writing survives. Both his Canon and the Babylonian Chronicle start on the day we traditionally call 26th February 747 BC, ...
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