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245 pages of results. 641. My Challenge to Conventional Views in Science [Journals] [Pensee]
... we know that by cosmic and x-rays, by thermal and chemical means- conditions brought about in the catastrophes of the past- massive mutations can be achieved. The pre-1950 astronomy followed the same pseudo-scientific statute of faith, elevated to a fundamental principle, and made believe that the Earth and other planets travel the same paths for the same six ... a psychoanalyst could not but recognize as so many variants of the same theme. In hymns, in prayers, in historical texts, in philosophical discourses, in records of astronomical observations, but also in legend and religious myth, the ancients desperately tried to convey to their descendants, ourselves included, the record of events that took place in ...
642. Focus [Journals] [SIS Review]
... MR PETER J. JAMES (London): "Velikovsky's Revised Chronology and the Archaeology of the Hittites". DISCUSSION PROF. ARCHIBALD E. ROY (Dept. of Astronomy, University of Glasgow): "The Astronomical Basis of Egyptian Chronology". DR EUAN Mackie: "Radiocarbon Dating and Egyptian Chronology". DISCUSSION Evening: Informal ... with speakers. Sunday Morning: PROF. A. E. ROY: "The Stability of the Solar System; I". DR ROBERT W. BASS (Dept. of Astronomy, Brigham Young University, Utah): "The Stability of the Solar System: II" . DISCUSSION Afternoon: DR I. VELIKOVSKY: "The ...
643. Commemoration Of The 2300bc Event [Journals] [SIS Review]
... . D.W .R . McKinley, Meteor Science and Engineering, McGraw-Hill, 1961, p. 153; also A.C .B . Lovell: Meteor Astronomy, Clarendon, 1954, pp. 296-308. 2. F.L . Whipple, Photographic Meteor Studies. III. The Taurid Shower', Proc. American ... amount to 20 billion tonnes of meteoroids. Encountering just a portion of the material ejected over several hundred years could cause terrifying destruction. Over 20 years ago, two British astronomers, Clube and Napier, introduced the concept of a giant' comet entering the Solar System 10-20,000 years ago and disintegrating into smaller comets, one of which ...
644. Proof of A Celestial Counterforce to Gravity [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... 1. Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain (New York, 1979), pp. 95-96. 2. Valerie Illingworth, ed., The Fact on File Dictionary of Astronomy, rev. ed. (New York, 1985), p. 12. 3. Ivan King, "Globular Clusters," Scientific American 252 (June ... to normal." (9 ) Dewey B. Larson, in examining this phenomenon, adds: Those who dislike having to concede that there is a significant gap in astronomical knowledge here are inclined to make much of the fact that a few clusters do show some signs of rotation. For instance, Omega Centauri is slightly flattened and some ...
645. Worlds In Collision. File I (Stargazers and Gravediggers) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Stargazers]
... points. Morning, afternoon, and evening I returned to the library to read for Ages in Chaos and Worlds in Collision. The implications of my theory for geology and astronomy drove me to those departmental libraries, too. After a few years I noted with a little surprise that the only library in the humanities and the sciences that I ... bright torch of heaven," it was called by the Chaldeans, who also called it "a stupendous prodigy in the sky that illuminates like the sun." Chinese astronomical texts likewise described Venus as "rivaling the sun in brightness," and Chinese sources referred to the change in the motions of Venus in the past. The Arabs ...
646. Jupiter -- God of Abraham (Part I) [Journals] [Kronos]
... held by some that Abram and his brothers could not have attended any of the city schools of the time,(74) tradition holds that Abram was well versed in astronomy and mathematics. It is recorded, for instance, that Serug, Abram's great-grandfather, taught Nahor, Abram's grandfather, the secrets of heaven. "And she [ ... his tribe, together with vast populations of the ancient Near East, uprooted itself in search of a new home and the comprehension of a new god? 7. The Astronomer The study of celestial bodies is one of man's oldest sciences. Had there been any irregular motions in the heavens during the time under consideration (ca. 2000 B ...
647. THE SURFACE OF VENUS--"A NEWBORN BABE" [Journals] [Aeon]
... (4 ) One of the researchers of this phenomenon, Larry Esposito from the University of Boulder Colorado, elaborated on this decrease of SO2 and SO two months later in Astronomy: Pioneer Venus has continued to monitor these constituents above the clouds. Over the years a remarkable discovery has emerged: both sulfur dioxide and the haze have been gradually ... outcome, speculation 6 appears to represent most closely what we now think Venus is like. (1 ) Reinforcing the sixth option Ernest J. Opik, the internationally known astronomer of Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland, stated in 1960: The modern picture of Venus...[is] a borderless desert extending over an area one hundred ...
648. Indra and Brhaspati (Forum) [Journals] [Kronos]
... X,(13) although he implicitly acknowledged the gravity gradient in reporting Van Flandern's position. Ironically, by the time the Pioneer experiment shows results, the Earth-orbiting Infrared Astronomy Satellite, launched in January 1983, may have already discovered Planet X! (14) Perhaps this situation may be explained by the fact that, at the time ... Maghavan", he is an "Indra". The two are of explicitly identical character. Also, in a late source, the Narada Purana, there is an astronomical section wherein the presiding god of Jupiter is listed as Indra.(7 ) If Jupiter's god is Indra and, at the same time, Brhaspati, the two ...
649. Solar System Studies (Part 2) [Journals] [Aeon]
... 3 less than those of Saturn and Neptune- although it seems inconceivable that uniformitarian thought would predict that several planets would share the same anomalous tilt (another paradox for modern astronomy). Mars There is some interesting and highly persuasive physical evidence on behalf of Talbott's (mythically-based) location of Mars on the axis between the Earth and the polar ... . (Velikovsky postulated that some of these catastrophes were very ancient while others were quite recent): Moon rocks exhibit remanent magnetism although the Moon has no magnetic field. Astronomers postulate electrical effects of the primitive Solar System as the cause, while Velikovsky postulated electrical discharges between planetary bodies in recent millennia. Velikovsky postulated internal lunar heat and this ...
650. The Kintraw Stone Platform [Journals] [Kronos]
... No. 2, pp. 6-26; A. Fleming, Nature (June 19, 1975), p. 575. 2. A. Thom, Vistas in Astronomy, 11 (1969), pp. 7-9 where the author states that the "little platform [was] cut into the very steep hill" and describes it ... From: Kronos Vol. V No. 3 (Spring 1980) Home | Issue Contents The Kintraw Stone Platform Thomas McCreery Professor Thom's innovative hypothesis concerning megalithic astronomical observatories has, if correct, catastrophic import on a range of disciplines. His works have consequently provoked considered opposition from various quarters.(1 ) A fundamental criticism which is ...
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