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245 pages of results. 591. A Philosophy for Interdisciplinary Studies [Journals] [SIS Review]
... by that of Einstein [5 ]. If to defy a reigning paradigm is to be a crank, then VELIKOVSKY, who has defied at least three paradigms, in astronomy, palaeontology and ancient history, is triply a crank. But then, Copernicus and Galileo were cranks for exactly the same reason. It might be objected that the ... paradigm is true, or at least truer than some alternative, is a pointless or senseless one, is to be driven to some pretty paradoxical consequences. According to the astronomical paradigm of the 1970's, quasars and pulsars exist, and indeed have existed for many millions of years; whereas according to the paradigms which reigned in the1950's and at ...
592. Introduction to the Proceedings [Journals] [SIS Review]
... long-unpublished assault on the foundations of conventional chronology - in particular the supposed Sothic dating system. It is interesting to note that subsequent to the appearance of this paper (" Astronomy and Chronology") some specialists in the field arrived at similar conclusions on the validity of astronomical dating methods [10]. Though by 1974, after ten issues ... extant continuous history from the ancient Near East - rather than a modern reconstruction based on incomplete king-lists and fragmentary summaries of Manetho's late History of Egypt, bolstered by highly questionable astronomical assumptions [3 ], and considering it more reasonable to suspect this construct than to suppose centuries of history missing from the Hebrew record. Velikovsky's Revised Chronology - first ...
593. Plato And The Catastrophist Tradition [Journals] [Kronos]
... the option of both/ and. Political analysis, albeit necessary, leaves out entirely the level of meaning emphasized by Plato and crucial to our contemporary concern: that of astronomical catastrophism. The story of Atlantis is preceded by an introduction supposedly, like the story itself, in the words of an Egyptian priest of the temple of Neith/ ... Mill. Stated as simply as possible, the essential thesis of Hamlet's Mill is that the great myths are a worldwide storehouse of symbols and motifs that once constituted the coherent astronomical-astrological science of our pre-literate ancestors in all parts of the world. The events of myth, and especially the great mythic catastrophes of devastation by fire and flood, are ...
594. Night of the Gods: Polar Myths. The Pole Star [Books]
... I une cite voir pouvons I qui Aaron ainsi a nom. I Celle sict en mi lieu du monde* I et fut faite toute ronde. I La fut trouvee astronomie I premierement par grand maistrie. I Ce lieu est. dit le droit midi I car en mi le mont* est assis. I Li autres d'icelle lignie I ... bluelight of that splendid point de mire may then have helped the worship of the Polar deity into its highest position. The latest intelligence from Vega was communicated to the Royal Astronomical Society on 14th Nov. 1890 by Mr. Fowler. He says it is spectroscopically a double-star, and that the pair revolve round one another once in about every ...
595. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... twice as old as any previously found. Is it just conceivably possible that there is something wrong with the dating techniques? Astronomers cause tectonic upheavals Robert Matthews - Science correspondent Astronomy Professors Lyttleton and Bondi of Cambridge University have been treading on the geologists' corns. They do not like tectonic plate theory and think that mountain ranges were formed as ... old DNA obtained from insects trapped in amber is twice as old as any previously found. Is it just conceivably possible that there is something wrong with the dating techniques? Astronomers cause tectonic upheavals Robert Matthews - Science correspondent Astronomy Professors Lyttleton and Bondi of Cambridge University have been treading on the geologists' corns. They do not like tectonic plate ...
596. Speakers at the Conference [Journals] [SIS Review]
... has held a number of senior posts in the aerospace engineering industry, was an Associate Editor of Pensée, and at the time of the Conference was Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Brigham Young University, Utah. Dr Velikovsky addressing the conference at McMaster University, Ontario, June 1974. Photograph by Wal Thornhill: DR JOHN BIMSON specialised in ... , 1965), Astronomy (with D. Clerk, 2 vols., 1977) and Orbital Motion (1978). Professor Roy is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. DR IMMANUEL VELIKOVSKY studied at the Universities of Edinburgh and Karkhov, gaining his medical degree at Moscow University in 1921. He then moved to Berlin where he ...
597. Chapter23_end
... beginning in Greece. Not only Anaximander's ethical statics of the cosmos, but the whole 331 Pythagorean theory had been based on those three mathematical sciences: number, music, astronomy. Here lay the undeviating heart of truth on which the Good can rest, and the rest concerned engineers. Even in Thucydides, there is a kind of reductio ... above, p. 215) that she "stirs up the apsu before Ea"? 321 Lady-archers being a rare species, it is worth consideration that the great Babylonian astronomical text, the so-called "Series mulAPIN" (= Series Plough-Star, the Plough-Star being Triangulum), states: "the Bow-star is the Ishtar of Elam, daughter ...
598. Update on Nabta Stone Circle [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... , a cosmic perspective that humans have never had, except for modern astronomical calculations. If Dr. Brophy's conclusions are correct, the implication is that an intelligence sophisticated in astronomy was operating on earth long before the earliest known Mesopotamian civilizations. ...
599. ... in future issues [Journals] [SIS Review]
... ancient Mesopotamian chronology. Dr Earl Milton (physicist, Lethbridge University, Canada), takes a radical look at the validity of the dating methods presently used in geology and astronomy. The importance of electricity in astronomy - a continuation of British physicist Eric Crew's major contributions to this field. Isaac Newton is well known for his work on gravitation ... . Further contributions from the American researcher M. M. Mandelkehr on the evidence for a major global catastrophe around 2300 BC, including studies of the climatological, geological, astronomical and mythological evidence. A retrospective assessment of Velikovsky's scholarship from Professor Robert Hewsen, Director of the Center for Velikovskian and Interdisciplinary Studies, Glassboro College, New Jersey, ...
600. Chapter VIII: the Earliest Solar Shrines in Egypt [Books]
... almost a difference of race is required to explain it. I say this advisedly, although I know creed can go a great way, because among these early peoples their astronomy was chiefly a means to an end. It was not a story of abstract conceptions, or the mere expression of interesting facts whether used for religious purposes or not ... Amen-hetep III., and are monoliths 60 feet high) Plan of Memphis. (From Lepsius.) We have seen that it did not require any great amount o astronomical knowledge to determine either the moment of th< solstice or the moment of the equinox. The most natural thing to begin with was the observation of the solstice, ...
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