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245 pages of results. 691. The Two Faces of Love [Books] [de Grazia books]
... was at a new peak of activity, but was apparently tamed by the god of Mars. When the disasters subsided, the skies had to be resurveyed; a new astronomy occurred. After some decades, astronomers discovered, first, that two new bodies existed, a Morning Star and an Evening Star. The former was quickly re-identified as ... the Gods," in the Iliad, she goes to his aid in battle and is roundly smacked by the Goddess Athena. If we look into Homer for the precise astronomical referents of Ares, Aphrodite, Hephaestus and Athena, we are disappointed. Homer does not say that the three sky bodies - planet mars, Moon, and planet ...
692. Annotated Bibliography for Catastrophism [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... students, most likely in order to press home the idea that even basic beliefs might change over time. Reiche, Harald A. T. "The language of archaic astronomy: A clue to the Atlantis myth?", in Astronomy of the Ancients, Second edition, Kenneth Brecher and Michael Feirtag, editors. The MIT Press, ... between ancient astronomy and mythology particularly in the creation of etiological myths. He adroitly summarizes the precession themes discussed at length in Hamlet's Mill. Reiche also offers an interesting purely astronomical interpretation of the myth of Atlantis. Meinel, Aden and Marjorie. Sunsets, twilights, and evening skies. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1983. The Meinels ...
693. Thoth Vol III, No. 1: Jan 15, 1999 [Journals] [Thoth]
... well as we might like to think. But I don't think anyone knows a mechanism by which that can be done." Roger Ulrich, a professor of physics and astronomy at UCLA, reported results a couple of years (sic) that hinted at a change of size similar to what Chapman found. But Ulrich didn't believe the sun ... grew quickly from small to giant size, and terrorized the peoples of the earth." Velikovsky's thesis, needless to say, met with nearly unanimous hostility and disbelief among astronomers. A reappraisal of the evidence bearing on the question, however, suggests that Velikovsky deserves great credit for anticipating the Martian origin of certain meteorites. And if the ...
694. Collapsing Tests of Time [Books] [de Grazia books]
... the technique [58]. "Annual" is a relative standard, presently derived from a revolution of the tilted globe of the Earth around the Sun. Changes in astronomical motions can change the number of rings; if a "year" is shortened, the rings may be increased within the normal lifetime, something that may have caused ... several countries; they differ from the observations that scientists today would make of the same movements. The ancients numbered scientific observers among them, and states were sometimes dominated by astronomer-theocrats. Water-clocks, that measured time by the passage of water, and sun-dials were built; specimens have been found; they mark a time, however, which differs ...
695. East and West, Part 1 Venus Ch.5 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... left to right-and that will be from west to east."(24) The present sun moves in the opposite direction. In the language of a symbolic and philosophical astronomy, probably of Pythagorean origin, Plato describes in Timaeus the effects of a collision of the earth "overtaken by a tempest of winds" with "alien fire from ... constellations in "a reversed orientation" of the southern sky.(14) The end of the Middle Kingdom antedated the time of Queen Hatshepsut by several centuries. The astronomical ceiling presenting a reversed orientation must have been a venerated chart, made obsolete a number of centuries earlier. "A characteristic feature of the Senmut ceiling is the astronomically ...
696. Velikovsky Versus Academic Lag (The Problem of Hypothesis) [Journals] [Kronos]
... philosophers. It is the fallacy of composition, the fallacy of the "partial view" mistaken for the "whole". This is a special problem in physics and astronomy today. The idea that all of the special sciences are reducible to physics is ridiculous, especially when we see that what passes for physics is natural philosophy developed in ... we support academic lag on that basis? Let us look at Dr. Velikovsky's hypotheses in terms of their predictive successes. The record is overwhelmingly a success, yet the astronomer, like the 19th century "physicist", prefers to wait, and after the actual fact to look around for an ad hoc hypothesis to cover it. This ...
697. Catastrophism and the Mammoths - II (Vox Populi) [Journals] [Kronos]
... at a powerful and deeply entrenched orthodoxy and tried to overturn it. To a considerable extent, he succeeded. Catastrophism is firmly established (though not fully accepted) in astronomy and other sciences. Velikovsky himself has still not been forgiven for breaking the bad news about our planet's past. People are grouchy when they first wake up, but ... continental drift providing a credible explanation for equatorial glaciers and corals in the Arctic, I will remind Ellenberger that the Soviets do not accept this. Persons as distinguished as the astronomer R. A. Lyttleton remain bitter opponents of continental drift: publication of the measurement of the drift has not stopped their opposition. Lyttleton in particular continues to provide ...
698. The Bonds of the Past [Journals] [Kronos]
... benefits could be of reciprocal value to meteorologists and astronomers." With the preceding statement above the title, Eric Crew presents Part 3 of his stimulating discussion- "Electricity in Astronomy". Additional material includes a socio-philosophical article by R. G. A. Dolby on the Velikovsky affair and Velikovsky's methodological approach. In reading this article, one ... on his earlier position. It is probably fairly safe to say that the last word has not yet been heard on the matter. "Electrical processes are generally ignored by astronomers and yet they may succeed in resolving many problems in astrophysics. The simple comparison of the effects of lightning on Earth with those of assumed discharges scaled up to stellar ...
699. The Reflective Canopy Model and the Mytho-historical Record [Journals] [Aeon]
... stars in the constellation Draco (56) and, since Draco had been the polar constellation around 2300 BC., some authorities have assumed that this proves that Chinese observational astronomy dates to at least that remote time. Be that as it may, the term "pivot" for these Draconian stars fits in with their former polar, or ... much smaller scale, the famous Schmidt system employs a transparent corrector plate with an aspherical surface facing the concavity of the mirror? (28) (While the concavity of astronomical mirrors is only between one and four inches deep, the curve they are made to follow is precisely calculated to conform with that of a true spherical curvature. In ...
700. The Invisible College by Robert Lomas (Book review) [Journals] [SIS Review]
... by the Church in which magic and science, such as astrology and number symbolism, played a role. Several of the founders of the Royal Society had astrological backgrounds. Astronomy, as a science, was hardly known. It seems quite logical and simple. There is a certain amount of astronomical symbolism in Masonry, probably astrological in origin ... possibly having a Hermetic connection. For example, a five-pointed star flanks a blazing star on the ceiling of Masonic temples. These appear to be the sun and Venus. The movement of the latter around the sun, as viewed from earth, involves 5 cycles of 8 years = 40. This number has very strong Biblical parallels and it ...
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