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67 pages of results. 581. "Extra-Scientific" Dimensions of Science [Journals] [SIS Review]
... does this with respect to the Neo-Platonic background of the dispute over sun-centred astronomy. See The Copernican Revolution (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1956). With respect to Darwin's theory of evolution through natural selection the work of Robert M. Young is most informative. See "Malthus and the Evolutionists: The Common Context of Biological and Social Theory", Past & Present No. 43 (1969), pp. 109-45 and " Non-Scientific' factors in the Darwinian Debate", Actes du XII Congrès International D'Histoire des Sciences (Paris, Blanchard, 1971), Vol. 8 pp. 221-6. 21. In comments on Joseph May's "The Heresy of ...
582. Ice Fields of the Earth [Books] [de Grazia books]
... laminated, French geologists have tried to establish a correlation between the laminations and the oscillations of the axis of the Earth. The oscillations occur some 23,000 to 41,000 years apart, the sedimentary layers are individually accorded 20,000 to 40,000 years. Voila, as the Earth rocks, the sea level and the biological activity of the sea rise and fall, as evidenced in the layers. "But how explain that such feeble orbital variations should be capable of engendering such important changes? The problem," wrote a group of French editors led by Serge Berg, "is far from being clarified." Surely so; however, not only chalk ...
583. Science and Novelty [Journals] [SIS Review]
... fundamental tool of science, in partial replacement of the absolute function formerly assigned to the logic of certainty, has itself met severe conceptual problems, the subject of laborious but fruitful work now going on, involving various disciplines and with links to psychology, economics and the social sciences. In another direction, there are increasingly close links with the biological sciences following the discovery of the laws of genetics, already some years old, and subsequent major insights in this area, culminating recently in the breaking of the genetic code [3 ]. A Third Example: The "Velikovsky Affair" The few examples given here, and countless other examples which could easily have been added, indicate ...
584. Comments [Journals] [Catastrophist Geology]
... Peut-être devra-t-on en venir un jour à une synthèse qui inclura à la fois, une évolution néo-darwinienne, et des mutations brusques, suivant la conception de Cuvier. George Cuvier Paris (Dr.Cuvier is not a descendant but belongs to the same family as his famous namesake. He is a medical doctor who has founded the review "Bulletin-de Biologie Clinique" and has published on social hygiene, biometeorology, work safety, and on the history of science). Geologists should never stand in awe of physicists! Horace C.Dudley (physicist) University of Illinois Chicago, U.S .A . The magazine that you are founding certainly appears to be interesting. This must ...
585. Cosmic and Terrestrial Lightning [Books] [de Grazia books]
... Moon's outermost blanketing materials. This would be a most incredible coincidence if the interplanetary discharges described by Velikovsky never took place [22]. We are only in the early stages of fulminology. Edward Komarek has discovered that the effects of modern lightning are extensive. When a tree is struck, surrounding trees and vegetation are affected by structural, biological, and chemical changes for a long time to come. Lightning also may fuse the Earth around. Fused sand tubes caused by lightning and called "fulgurites" are common around the world. "In one sand-dune patch of 5,000 acres at Witsands, on the southeastern border of the Kalahari Desert, Lewis estimated that there were ...
586. Electricity [Books] [de Grazia books]
... occasioned the build-up of charge and then a flowing discharge through the structure, creating a confusion in administrative orders and a linguistic amnesia especially in the lingua franca. No longer could people understand each other. And then the whole edifice was stuck by immense cosmic bolts, partly fractured, and exploded. "Slow lightning" is the geologically and biologically effective discharge of terrestrial electricity. A "slow lightning flood" may be conceivable, too. The curious vitrified forts of Scotland may be a case in point [15]. They remind us of the Ziggurat of Babylon. Their stone and mortar are fused solidly with the clifftops to which they adhere. The forts are much in ...
587. Velikovsky and the Apparatus of Scholarship [Journals] [SIS Review]
... almost every field of knowledge, with material coming in so rapidly that even the most up-to-date computers can barely handle it, one can hardly expect this man - whose mind was as close to a computer as any I have encountered to be able to hold all the information about the solar system, our planet, ancient civilisations, evolution, biology, microbiology, astrophysics and so on. If he fell behind during the 1960s while he was weighted down with critical opposition, the man cannot be faulted for that. A key point to keep in mind before we are too harsh with Dr Velikovsky - who of course was human and I do concur with Dr Hewsen that there were ...
588. Thoth Vol III, No. 16: Dec 1, 1999 [Journals] [Thoth]
... (it's been demonstrated in fruit flies under laboratory conditions), which means speciation in a single generation under catastrophic conditions. Or a combination of the above (life is polymorphous, after all.) So let's go on to Dave's second question, "if you grant the Saturn model," what would I expect to find in the biological sphere? Spoken language is an intricate part of Homo sapiens. It involves several complex phenomena, including a "hard-wired" grammar function and a unique placement of the human larynx, plus probably more things I'm not aware of. All of the above, or one crucial component, could have appeared at once in many members of the ...
589. The Empire Strikes Back [Books] [de Grazia books]
... covering so broad an area. Of course, we would lose much in clarity and orderly communication if our students were to adopt it in all manner of writing. Velikovsky sees prehistory and protohistory as frequented by stupendous natural catastrophes that call into question the stability of the solar system over long time periods, and therefore the gradualism of darwinism in biology. His evidence is limited and fragmentary, much of it anomalies that puzzle historians both human and natural. Most of his evidence must, and does also, serve conventional approaches, our received knowledge, although he insists upon viewing it as catastrophic. His most radical hypotheses, which he expresses far too confidently, propose drastic erratic movements ...
590. The Third World of Science [Books] [de Grazia books]
... the book are mostly his opponents; few friends and supporters appear. The only persons of catastrophist persuasion mentioned were Alan Kelly (but on nothing to do with his catastrophism) and Claude Schaeffer. Alan Kelly, and Frank Dachille who was his collaborator in Target Earth (1953), lived far apart and they worked alone. In American biology, Goldschmidt and Simpson knew there had been quantum jumps in paleontology and presumably their students acquired some inkling of the anomalies. In circles espousing Biblical literalism, the work of Price and others was discussed. There must have been other catastrophist scientists of the 1950's in America and England, but to this day Deg has not been able to ...
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