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245 pages of results. 561. Settled Sky and Unsettled Mind [Books] [de Grazia books]
... have circular and uniform movements of their own.. If one could not but analyze those complicated motions they would be reduced to uniform circular ones . The whole of Greek astronomy grew out of that arbitrary conviction."[2 ] We begin to perceive what happened. Even though Sarton sees the origins of Pythagorean astronomy in an idée fixe ... must move regularly and circularly, he believes that his arbitrary idea had a true result- namely to "discover" that the planets do have such motions. Hence, astronomers and public now agree that, as the contemporary popularizer Asimov puts it, "the Greek astronomers realized that there must be more than one canopy. For while the ...
... Aristotelianism became the credo of the Church, which regarded the world as finite, and earth as the center of the universe and immovable. The codification in the science of astronomy was performed by a distant pupil of Aristotle, Claudius Ptolemy, an Alexandrian astronomer and mathematician, the greatest authority in those sciences during his own age; through all ... centuries until the time of Tycho de Brahe and Johannes Kepler, almost fifteen hundred years later, it was the undisputed dogma. Islam spread to Spain in the West and to Bukhara and Kashmir in the East. The Catholic Church dominated Western Europe. America was not yet discovered. In both West and East the Jews, a small dispersed ...
563. Megalithic Astronomy [Journals] [SIS Review]
... From: SIS Review Vol 1 No 2 (Spring 1976) Home | Issue Contents Neolithic Stone Circles - their Purpose and Interpretation Megalithic Astronomy Euan MacKie Valuable evidence which must be considered in relation to theories of recent catastrophism is provided by the prehistoric standing stone observatories in the British Isles and Brittany. Enough work has been done on these ... measured over the last forty years, mainly by Professor A. Thom. The azimuth (bearings) and altitudes of the points on the horizon indicated were then converted into astronomical terms and the declinations (1 ) thus discovered were plotted on a histogram which is shown in A. Thom's "Megalithic Sites in Britain" (1967). ...
564. Impact Geology (Review)ed [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... he discards the "gravitational disruption" option and develops the collision thesis: This work offers a new concept of earth history by melding the oldest of sciences, geology and astronomy. It agrees with the long-held theory of astronomers that the earth has grown by accretion of cosmic debris ranging in size from asteroids down to dust, and that collision ... a few of the most massive space objects caused the axis of the earth to change in relation to the rays of the sun and in relation to the plane of its orbit around the sun. It agrees too . . . that the earth's axis was in a different location in Permian time, as revealed by the old glaciated polar areas ...
565. The Female Star [Journals] [Aeon]
... memory of our sister planet's recent history. Hitherto, the ancients' testimony has been discounted as fantastic since it describes a Venus at odds with the central beliefs of modern astronomy. Certainly it is possible that ancient man, like his modern counterpart, was interested in fiction and simply invented the mythical traditions surrounding Venus. If so, it ... recalled as a great king's daughter. [28] Having now documented the prevalence of this theme, how are we to explain the feminine nature traditionally accorded Venus? The astronomer Patrick Moore offered the following suggestion: "A female association is in fact general, except in India; this is natural enough, since to the unaided eye Venus ...
566. Reexamination of the Foundations [Journals] [Pensee]
... science. The strong reaction to Dr. Velikovsky is understandable to one who has done research in the history of science. Velikovsky has taken a look at the foundations of astronomy and geology, hitting at those very sensitive spots which were never empirically established. Uniformitarianism in geology was basically a political doctrine; it was never one that was verified ... . There's not too much you can do now with respect to setting up conditions in which things that happened several thousand years ago can be recreated. However, historians and astronomers alike now have techniques for simulating these conditions or at least operationally reducing them to variables that can be located within our own experience. For example, Velikovsky's views on ...
567. On The Symposium Trail [Journals] [Pensee]
... 250 years for us to get used to the idea that terrestrial phenomena can be explained without the models of practical mechanics. The same job remains to be done now for astronomy." Paterson stated that uniformity is one of the "metaphysical assumptions" which currently govern data selection and hypothesis formation: "We have ignored much of Newton. ... to be seen; but, as the account below demonstrates, he received a far more friendly reception from his fellow panelists at Duquesne than he ever experienced among physicists and astronomers in the early years. Taken together, these five symposia lead one to several conclusions: 1) As a result of processes already underway, Velikovsky's work will be ...
568. I.Q.: A University Program [Books] [de Grazia books]
... Study of ancient evidence before the present era of heavy atmospheric and earth electrification in especially the Mosaic period, the Vedas, and the Greek mysteries. Q11. The New Astronomy and Quantavolution. A binary solar system; origins of planets, comets; electromagnetic effects; the surprise of space exploration. Q12. Geological Problems of Quantavolution. Ice ... in Ancient Europe and the Near East. Velikovsky's attacks upon Egyptian chronology and their effects upon the dating of Mediterranean and Near East cultural events. Western Europe and the megalithic astronomers. Q16. Professional Writing and Translating. For the Certificate of the Institute of Quantavolution. For students having completed eight courses and approved by an ad hoc committee after ...
569. Focus [Journals] [SIS Review]
... afternoon was given over to a discussion of scientific dating methods. After four speakers had addressed the Conference via the microphone, PROFESSOR A. E. ROY, Head of Astronomy at Glasgow, spurned its assistance for his talk on The Astronomical Basis of Egyptian Chronology, receiving delighted applause from the floor for his observations that it was no more ... an encumbrance for a mobile speaker and that the nineteenth-century evangelist D. L. Moody was said to have been clearly understood in the open air by crowds of up to one thousand people. Disclaiming any expertise in the study of ancient Egypt, Professor Roy restricted himself severely to his own science, beginning with a crash course on observational astronomy ...
... later; but if Jueneman really wanted to tape the session he could ask the AAAS in Washington, D.C . The Association's main office then referred Jueneman to its Astronomy Section (in Louisiana) and the local San Francisco chapter. A few days before the session began, Seaborg's office gave Jueneman verbal permission, with the proviso that ... spoke to the executives employees of Lockheed as part of the company's "Science and the Quality of Life" series. On the twenty-second of April he again addressed the Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton. In May he traveled to Alberta for his honorary doctorate at the University Of Lethbridge and an associated symposium on "Velikovsky and Cultural Amnesia." ...
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