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245 pages of results. 701. The Blazing Star, Part 1 Venus Ch.8 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... became the Morning Star. The earliest writer who refers to the transformation of Phaėthon into a planet is Hesiod.(27) This transformation is related by Hyginus in his Astronomy, where he tells how Phaėthon, that caused the conflagration of the world, was struck by a thunderbolt of Jupiter and was placed by the sun among the stars ... visible movement of the sun, caused a world conflagration, and became the Morning-Evening Star. This may be found not only in the legends and traditions, but also in astronomical books of the ancient peoples of both hemispheres. 26. Cf. Cicero, De natura deorum (transl. H. Rackham), ii. 52. 27 ...
702. Horizons [Journals] [SIS Review]
... neutron bomb; and miniaturisation. Recommended to all with time and inclination to keep abreast of progress. Of particular interest is the issue for December 1977, devoted to The Astronomy of the Ancients. The writers of this issue examine the astronomical "Medicine Wheels" of the Plains Indians; apparent supernova records in early American petroglyphs; the earliest ... instruments (shadow-clocks, astrolabes, sundials from both hemispheres); the enigmatic legends, ancient and modern, concerning Sirius; the astronomical features of Stonehenge; the (suggested) terrestrial origins of the celestial Gorgon myth, and the possible celestial origins of the supposedly terrestrial Atlantis tradition. A fascinating, entertaining and informative issue which should stimulate readers ...
703. The Newton Affair [Journals] [Kronos]
... unpublished, and these are manuscripts to which he dedicated long years of research and thought and which are directly related to the development and formulation of his ideas in matters of astronomy. To make the matter worse, even some of his published works are ignored: specialists of Newtonian studies barely mention them and dismiss them as insignificant. If they ... he was unusually successful in his scientific endeavors does not disprove that his main aim was to reconcile astronomy with religion. Newton, as we shall argue, believed that the astronomical revolution linked with the names of Copernicus and Galileo had destroyed the foundations of religious belief, and that it was necessary to return to the medieval world view. He ...
704. Focus [Journals] [SIS Review]
... "; Note 19 (second last line of same para.): for "angle of the earth" read "axis of the earth". To Electricity in Astronomy: p. 24, penuitimate line: for "change" read "charge". (Mr Crew notes that the converse misprint occurs on p. 260 of ... opportunity to bring the major issues in the debate to the attention of a wider audience, with qualified speakers on both sides. One section of the programme will consider the astronomical basis of Egyptian chronology and another the evidence of radiocarbon dates. A consideration of the implications for celestial mechanics is also likely to be included. The Society is assisting ...
705. Peoples of the Sea by Immanuel Velikovsky [Velikovsky]
... Chapter IV: SI-AMON 187 Peinuzem II (187). Si-Amon (189). Conclusions (198). Retrospect and Prospect (201). CHARTS 207 SUPPLEMENT: ASTRONOMY AND CHRONOLOGY Chapter I: THE FOUNDATIONS OF EGYPTIAN CHRONOLOGY 215 A Mighty Tree (215). "A Skeleton Clothed with Flesh" (217). Who First ... Are Too Few and 1,660 Are Too Many (232). Statements of Censorinus and Theon Combined (234). Who Was Menophres? (236). Astronomical Incertitudes of Astronomical Chronology (240). Chapter III: VENUS 245 Venus (245). The Synodical Period of Venus and the Festivals (250). " ...
706. Year Two Thousand and One [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... . In this regard, we will welcome suggestions from readers. We are seeking to identify uniquely open-minded researchers with the highest qualifications in these areas of interest: cosmology, astronomy, physics and mathematics, geology, history and philosophy of science, anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, comparative mythology, and comparative religion. We would particularly like to ... working full time on the development of our mythological data base. This is a comprehensive, non-selective, region-by-region compendium of gods, their attributes and symbols, and listings of astronomical traditions, general folklore, and superstitions. This raw data base is supplemented by a listing of broadly-distributed or global mythical and symbolic motifs abstracted from the data base and ...
707. The Photosphere: Is It the Top or the Bottom of the Phenomenon We Call the Sun? [Journals] [Kronos]
... 169. 7. J. Hynek, Challenge of the Universe, Scholastic Books (1962), p. 83. 8. F. Moulton, An Introduction to Astronomy, Macmillan (1906), p. 413. 9. L. Goldberg and E. Dyer, Jr., "The Sun," in Science in ... complexity that seems perversely contrived to hinder more than help radiant energy to escape. I The term photosphere goes back to the time of William Herschel, possibly the most influential astronomer of the early nineteenth century. He believed that the Sun has a cool, solid surface, abounding with life. The Sun's radiation, he taught, originates in ...
708. Catastrophism and the Mammoths - I (Vox Populi) [Journals] [Kronos]
... is that Tunguska was caused by a small asteroid instead of a comet [Ibid.; plus Nat. Hist., Feb. 1984, pp. 36-7, and Astronomy, Feb. 1984, p. 62] . Regarding a "universal" flood, I think it is safe to say that if one really happened, the ... a calendar and, later, as a diagonal star clock - discounting them as a map of the sky. Pogo based his later interpretations upon a fuller knowledge of Egyptian astronomical motifs in a variety of contexts. Velikovsky never commented upon the evolution of Pogo's thinking which was described by O. Neugebauer and R. A. Parker in Egyptian ...
709. Probable Visibilities of Venus at the Time of the Supposed Spin Rate Acceleration of the Earth [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... : "It is curious that that the Babylonians also counted a three month disappearance interval .. ." (quoted by Aveni from A. Pannekoek, A History of Astronomy (London, 1969), p. 33). (3 ) A portion of the Babylonian "Ninsianna" (or "Ammizaduga") tablets, frequently ... ; Hindu yugas and mahayugas, for instance, have essentially the same properties as Mayan tuns and katuns. Both societies also have a similar attitude to the astrological uses of astronomical observations. A hypothesis worth deeper study is that these habits originated on the Indian subcontinent and migrated across the Pacific, via Easter Island, to the central American mainland ...
710. Thoth Vol I, No. 7: March 23, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... system had changed within the memory of man. Ideas in nearly every field of scholarship were challenged, but most seriously challenged of all were certain dogmas in the field of astronomy which had only in recent centuries succeeded in convincing mankind that Spaceship Earth was a haven of safety. The emotional outburst from the community of astronomers that so blackened the ... Velikovsky and so successfully- if only temporarily- discredited Worlds in Collision has been laid to many causes, from the psychological and the political to simple resentment against invasion of the field by an outsider. Whatever the nature of such intensifying factors, however, I believe it is only fair to acknowledge an underlying and totally sincere scientific disbelief in the historical ...
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