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... far back as 1855. In scientific discussions one expects to see also the most recent work quoted, so that one can adequately judge the present state of understanding of the subject.'~25. The earth is a huge magnet As the principle of gravitation leaves no room for the participation of other forces in the ordinary movements of the celestial mechanism, these obvious and permanent influences of the electromagnetic state . . . are not allowed to have more than zero effect on the astronomical position of the earth Once again Velikovsky misrepresents the prevailing view held by scientists. The principle of gravitation certainly "leaves room" for the participation of other forces. Thus Bailey [20] was ...
622. Karl Popper and Evolutionary Theory (Vox Populi) [Journals] [Kronos]
... J. James in his review of Ever Since Darwin (KRONOS VII:4 , pp. 26-27). - LMG] ON POLAR SHIFTS AND THE METEOR SHOWER OF -687 In a note following my "Postscript" (KRONOS VII:3 , p. 88), Lynn E. Rose maintains that if Velikovsky had seen an Indian celestial chart "that put the celestial equator within a few degrees of the zenith of, say, Calcutta, that would have been more than sufficient for his purposes", namely to place the former terrestrial north pole near Baffin Island. But a chart with such a notation would tell us only the latitude of the city, and as ...
... ), if we complete the citation introduced by Sagan, this becomes clear: Joel did not copy from the Vedas, nor the Vedas from Joel. In more than this one instance it is possible to show that peoples, separated even by broad oceans, have described some spectacle in similar terms. These were pageants, projected against the celestial screen, that, a few hours after they were seen in India, appeared over Nineveh, Jerusalem, and Athens, shortly thereafter over Rome and Scandinavia, and a few hours later over the lands of the Mayas and Incas. "The spectators saw in the celestial prodigies either demons, as the Erinyes of the Greeks or the ...
624. The Lesser Light [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... kill him. For that end they arranged a festival during which Maire-Monan had to jump over three blazing bonfires. "He jumped the first but fainted above the second and was burned up. His bursting produced thunder, while the flames became lightning. Then he was carried up to heaven, where he became a star."3 A celestial scenario thus finds obscure expression in our history. Velikovsky contended that the planet Venus was cast from Jupiter and cited as one point of evidence the mythological account of the birth of the goddess Athene from the head of Zeus. If, as in the case of Zeus and Athene, the Saturn-Jupiter relationship means that the two planetary bodies were ...
625. Evaporating Oceans. Ch.9 Axis Shifted (Earth In Upheaval) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Earth in Upheaval]
... such vast areas? We cannot imagine any cause or agent for this, unless it be an exogenous agent, an extraterrestrial cause. For the removal of the poles from their places, or the shifting of the axis, also, only an external agent could have been responsible. The adherents of the Ice Age theory must look to the celestial for the causes of at least four separate encounters, in the not too distant past, with some celestial mass of matter or field of force. On passing through a large cloud of dust particles or meteorites, the earth and its atmosphere would be heated by the direct impact of these bodies on its atmosphere, its oceans, its ...
626. Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Comets. Ch.9 Axis Shifted (Earth In Upheaval) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Earth in Upheaval]
... in the number of occurrences; and this again would point to a stress or stresses that took place not so long ago: earthquakes are readjustments of the terrestrial strata, with accompanying relief from the stress. The theory of Alexis Perrey, regularly quoted in textbooks, connects the occurrence of earthquakes in our time with the position of the nearest celestial body, the moon. Earth tremors occur more often when the moon is full or when the earth is between the sun and the moon; when the moon is new, or when it is between the sun and the earth; when the moon crosses the meridian of the afflicted locality; and when the moon is closest to the ...
627. The Electric Saturnian System [Journals] [Aeon]
... so that the illumination of proto-Saturn would appear as a crescent throughout the entire capture process. An analog of the polar column might be that of the dust-tail of a comet which does not point directly away from the Sun but, rather, at some small angle to that line. However, this model requires that proto-Saturn move away from the celestial pole and spiral toward the south on approaching the ecliptic plane. This is because the axes of rotation of the planets must remain gyroscopically fixed in inertial space. The plasma toroid about Venus, forming the "eye," would then appear to close as we crossed that plane. [7 ] The question remains: Why are the ...
628. Thoth Vol III, No. 10: July 30, 1999 [Journals] [Thoth]
... , but this root identity could hold only insofar as wandering tribes retained the link of gods and planets. Many peoples- including the Egyptians and Greeks- did not; they preserved only the stories of extraordinary powers and forms dominating the sky in a prior epoch. Preserving the stories did not require clear skies and observational disciplines under conditions of a shifting celestial order. But maintaining planetary identifications certainly did require such disciplines. Insofar as nations did not preserve the link of god and planet, their imagination was permitted to attach any mythical name whatever to planets and stars in later times- in the same way that, still later, we attached mythical names to Uranus, Neptune and Pluto as these ...
629. A Reply To Isaacson [Journals] [Kronos]
... days of David a comet appeared in the form of a human being between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem' (I Chron. 21: 16; and verse 14 where it is noted that 70,000 men of Israel "fell" by some pestilence.) This strange celestial apparition may very well have been the planet Mars embarking on its ultimately threatening path towards the Earth which it menaced in the 8th and 7th centuries B.C . The planet Mars may also have been associated in some way with "the stone on which the Temple of Solomon was built- Eben Shetiya, or fire stone- . ...
630. Tektites and China's Dragon [Journals] [Kronos]
... ." The year was, supposedly, 449 A.D . Other comets which took on the appearance of a dragon are described in Comyns Beaumont's The Mysterious Comet. (4 ) Some, assuming the shape of a fiery serpent, breathing fire, were seen lashing their tail wildly as if in agony- which brings to mind the celestial antics of the proto-planet Venus as described by Velikovsky in Worlds in Collision.(5 ) Nor were serpent-like comets as rare as astronomers would have us believe. Winecke's Comet and Donati's Comet, both of which appeared in 1858, were said to look like fiery serpents. Swift's Comet and Holmes' Comet, both of which appeared in ...
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