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245 pages of results. 651. Society News [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Venusian glyph in the Venus symbol. The sign of life is the sign of Venus, still seen today in the symbol for the London Metal Exchange. He thought the astronomy of the Amarna period was wrong, being the astronomy of a 90-degree obliquity. The astronomy of the remaining Dynasty 18 kings is one of twelve 30 day months, ... and even the Magna Carta of 1215 were each dated to a particular year of a King's reign and not given AD dates. He presented some very interesting information on reported astronomical activity and observations during the late 16th/early 17th c. In Nov. 1572, a bright new star suddenly appeared in the sky in the constellation Cassiopeia, ...
652. The Road to Saturn (Excerpts from an Autobiographical Essay) [Journals] [Aeon]
... Might not archaeological excavations of similar areas reveal more of the same? XIII Ashton's short foray into Mesoamerican culture brought him face to face with an old quandary-namely, that Mesoamerican astronomy is silent when it comes to the planet Saturn. Comparative mythology can point to various American deities that can be identified as Saturnian gods but in no instance did the ... " The supernova, however, cannot be dated more precisely than "sometime between 9000 and 4000 B.C ." Michanowsky opted for the lower date on no particular astronomical evidence. He merely wished to bring it as close to the beginning of Sumerian civilization as possible. But if by "human achievement" is meant such things as ...
653. Pendulums and Sunspots [Journals] [Aeon]
... ), p.28. 5. (p . 68, #2 ). F. H. Shu & S.H . Lubow, Annual Review of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol.19 (1981), pp.281-282. 6. (p . 68, #3 ). H.A . Abt, ... dismiss the question concerning why these binary star orbital changes occur, Ellenberger offers the concept of "subtle changes." This simply will not do. Ivars Peterson cites an astronomer who remarked that such large and rapid changes in the orbits of binary stars is "telling us something about the evolution of orbits" and that "something has to ...
654. Venus Moves Irregularly, Part 1 Venus Ch.10 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... 19. A. Ungnad "Die Venustafeln und das neunte Jahr Samsuilunas," Mitteilungen der altorientalischen Geselischaft (1940), p. 22. 20. Thibaut, "Astronomie, Astrologie und Mathematik," Vol. 3, Pt. 9 (1899) of Grundriss der indo-arisch. Philol. und Altertumskunde, P. 27. 21 ... From "Worlds in Collision" © 1950 by Immanuel Velikovsky | FULL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE Contents Venus Moves Irregularly In the library of Assurbanipal in Nineveh were stored astronomical books of his and of previous ages; in the ruins of this library Sir Henry Layard found the Venus tablets.(14) There arose the question: From what period ...
655. Still Facing Many Problems (Part II) [Journals] [Kronos]
... . His inverse cube statements reflect this need. [* Of the Sun's general magnetic field, which at the surface is approximately like a dipole, The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Astronomy (1977) reports: "Symmetry and a precisely defined axis are lacking. The weak surface field does not arise from a dipole inside the Sun; it results ... as a tippe top, which turns upside-down when spun. This hope was short-lived, however, for three crucial errors in Warlow's analysis were identified in February 1980 by the astronomer Victor J. Slabinski and published in September 1981. Although Warlow never responded formally in print to Slabinski's critique, he refers to Slabinski anonymously in The Reversing Earth ( ...
656. Sir Norman Lockyer (1836-1920) [Journals] [SIS Review]
... & Catastrophism Review 1997:2 (Apr 1998) Home | Issue Contents Sir Norman Lockyer (1836-1920)Phillip Clapham Lockyer, after visiting Egypt, wrote The Dawn of Astronomy, in 1894. He had noted that in English churches the east window generally faced in the direction of sunrise on the feast days of patron saints (such as ... into account the possibility that something else prominent in the night sky might have obsessed them. Lockyer was controversial and worse .. .. . he was a self taught astronomer from relatively humble origins and, far worse than that, his interests were varied and many. He studied surface features on Mars for a while but then switched his ...
657. Sagan's second problem: Repeated collisions among the Earth, Venus and Mars (Carl Sagan & Immanuel Velikovsky) [Books]
... passage of time, in this case time measured in a mere few thousand years."13 An article titled "Venus and Earth: Engaged or Divorced?" in Astronomy (Vol. 7 for Oct. 1979), p. 58, discussed L.I . Shapiro and his colleague's analysis of the Venus-Earth resonance. They note ... chance of another, a well-known fact in celestial mechanics. Professor Sagan's calculations, in effect, ignore the law of gravity. Here, Dr. Velikovsky was the better astronomer."7 And Robert Bass was so bold as to state that Sagan's, "assumption [regarding independent probabilities] is absolutely identical to the assumption that Newton's Law ...
658. Comets, Polular Culture, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology [Journals] [Aeon]
... , a historian of science takes a look at the peculiar traditions surrounding comets and shows that they played a significant and hitherto largely overlooked role in the development of modern scientific astronomy under the likes of Isaac Newton and Edmund Halley. The following quote aptly summarizes Genuth's thesis: "It is often said that Newton and Halley were instrumental in sweeping ... as memorable and charged with unconscious emotion as the appearance of a brilliant comet. From time immemorial, comets have inspired dread and been associated with ominous portents. Ancient Babylonian astronomical texts link comets to the death of kings and other calamities. Similar views were common among the Greeks and Romans. Of a comet that appeared during Nero's reign, ...
659. Electro-Gravitic Theory (Forum) [Journals] [SIS Review]
... CR. The impression I have is that once Eric decided that the physics was impossible he skimmed the rest of the book and wrote about the physics, omitting all the astronomy. Reply from Eric Crew Writing a book review conscientiously is hard work and it is gratifying when it receives a tangible response, even if critical. Charles Ginenthal has ... and supported by theory, observations and experiment that I have not found a better idea' . Laszlo's work supports the nuclear reaction theory and solves many of the problems of astronomers concerning their views of the major significance of magnetism in solar physics. The ability of a new' theory to offer satisfactory explanations of observed phenomena is just as important ...
660. "Nemesis" -- A New Idea as Old as the Bible? [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... 000), and, finally, our present age of Discord, which will last a mere 432,000 years. This suggests a close and precise relationship between both astronomies. Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend, in their "search for a point where myth and science join," [5 ] concluded that "432, ... Earth's vicinity (between Mars and Jupiter) once every 3600 years, when more havoc is caused on Earth and the other planets. Since the publication of my book, astronomers at the U.S . Naval Observatory, at N.A .S .A ., and elsewhere, have concluded that such a twelfth member of our ...
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