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60 pages of results. 11. On Number As Artifact: Part 2: Development [Journals] [Horus]
... *! * Image] Astronomers find evidence of 13 as a number base among the builders and theorists of Stonehenge Edith Borroff, whose important work with the number 360 was discussed in the previous article, [HORUS II:1 ] believes the ancients tended to use number in both symbolic and functional ways. This is certainly true of the Chinese, with their hypothetical musical scales based on simple ratios, yet at the same time sophisticated acoustical computations based on principles of set theory. Modern mathematicians, finding the symbolic numbers and assuming their use in practical arithmetic, jumped at false conclusions about the ancients. Further, modern writers on the history of science have been impatient with the ...
12. On Number As Artifact (Part 1: Introduction) [Journals] [Horus]
... cultural area being investigated. Today one tends to think of music as an art. But an important branch of musical thought acoustics- is definitely a science, and was so for many millennia of cultural history during which certain philosophical premises became engrained in human thinking. Plato's friend Archytas called acoustics and astronomy "sister sciences," and the Chinese saw music and its laws as a source and basis for all knowledge. The bond between astronomy and acoustics was mathematical. In the liberal arts curriculum of the medieval academy, the four subjects comprising the quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy) were linked together by a common concern for number. Thus an epistemology taking ...
13. An Ear for Numbers [Journals] [Horus]
... From: Horus Vol. 3 No. 1 (Winter 1987) Home | Issue Contents An Ear for Numbers Fred Fisher <H3_1 _30.GIF> While teaching music subjects at a university in the Southwest highly regarded for its music school, I became disturbed by the apparent lack of interest in, or understanding of, Chinese music theory. Since it was becoming clear to me that ancient Chinese theory impinges on Western music theory in innumerable places and ways, I wondered why no professor on either the undergraduate or graduate level had ever bothered to discuss it while I myself was a student. Certainly the situation was being perpetuated. With these thoughts in mind, ...
14. Venus Worship and Ancient China [Articles]
... of my biggest problems. And as far as China's concerned, I'm a yellow fever type person. So, I was very pleased about that. I was going to go through Velikovsky, show that his dating of 687 B.C . for the second catastrophic event is probably an error, that Velikovsky's sources are incorrect as to his Chinese sources. He misses and misquotes by, sometimes, 500 years. But amongst everyone here, we all by now know that Velikovsky, unlike the rest of us, did make errors. And so rather than rehearsing that, I'll just accept that you'll take it at my face value, what I've said, and just make a ...
15. Night of the Gods: The Pillar [Books]
... about it may be interpreted, their work (if they ever worked) is not extant as specifically theirs. But it might be theorised that we may have the result of the labours of the named chroniclers, including Yasurnaro and Hiyeda no Are, in the Kozhiki, Ruzhiki, and Nihorrgi (all of which titles, by-the-way, are Chinese, not Japanese). The remarkable modern scholar and critic Mototiri Norinaga (1730-1801) condemns the Kozhiki as a forgery, compiled at a much later date than it pretends-to, and chiefly made-up from the Kozhiki and Nihongi. The truth may very well be that all the three are equally entitled to genuine respect, and Mr. Aston ...
16. China's Dragon [Journals] [Pensee]
... , the context of its widespread use indicating a significance matching the stature enjoyed by the Cross of the Church or by the Crescent of Islam (1 ). The iconographical significance is not so clear: different interpretations are given by the various authorities, so it is possible that by the time the West became acquainted with the Far East the Chinese themselves had lost all or some part of an original meaning or that they had attached other, and later, ideas. The literature on the dragon is extensive, and the only reason for adding to it is that it seems possible to recover the original meaning of the dragon as symbol. Evidence gained from pottery and from other sources ...
17. Velikovsky, Mars, and the Eighth Century B.C. Part Two [Journals] [Kronos]
... From: Kronos Vol. XII No. 1 (Winter 1987) Home | Issue Contents Velikovsky, Mars, and the Eighth Century B.C . Part Two Sean Mewhinney 776 B.C . II. THE "SHIH CHING" ECLIPSE According to Velikovsky: "The text of the ancient Chinese book of Shiking refers to some celestial phenomenon in the days of the king Yen-Yang, in -776: the sun was obscured."(1 ) And what was the nature of this "celestial phenomenon"? Is the planet Mars mentioned in connection with it? Velikovsky did not cite the original work itself. He gave as his references two eighteenth century works by Jesuit ...
18. The Years 763 and 687 BC [Journals] [SIS Review]
... biblical archaeologist and lecturer in Old Testament Studies at Trinity College, Bristol, is a consultant and regular contributor to the Review. The case for a major catastrophe having occurred in the year 687 BC is briefly reviewed and the idea that the 687 date is dependent on Assyrian chronology is shown to be in error. The date actually derives from Chinese evidence. Further, there seems to be no good evidence to postulate a global disaster in that year, the Chinese evidence suggesting no more than a meteor shower. However, Near Eastern evidence does suggest that the years 763 and 701 BC may have seen fairly widespread upheavals. In his letter concerning Velikovskian catastrophism and Assyrian chronology (see ...
19. AD Ages in Chaos: A Russian Point of View [Journals] [SIS Review]
... we look for antiquity, Etruscan' was named in 1706 for the first time, Golden Age' in 1505, so think about what this means. Almagest 14th century Antique 1530 century Arabic 14th century Arithmetic 15th century Astrology 14th century Astronomy 13th century August 1664 Bible 14th century Byzantine 1794 Caesar 1567 Cathedra 14th century Catholic 14th century Celtic 1590 Chinese 1606 Crusaders 1732 Dutch 14th century Education 1531 Etruscan 1706 Gallic 1672 German 14th century Golden age 1555 Gothic 1591 History 14th century Iberian 1601 Indian 14th century Iron Age 1879 Koran 1615 Mogul 1588 Mongol 1698 Muslim 1615 Orthodox 15th century Philosophy 14th century Platonic 1533 Pyramid 1549 Renaissance 1845 Roman 14th century Roman law 1660 Russian 1538 Spanish 15th century Swedish ...
20. March 23rd, Part 2 Mars Ch.2 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... the fourth moon, in the day sin mao (23rd of March) during the night, the fixed stars did not appear, though the night was clear [cloudless]. In the middle of the night stars fell like a rain." The date, 23rd of March, is Biot's calculation. The statement is based on old Chinese sources ascribed to Confucius. In another translation of the text, by Rémusat,4 the last part of the passage is rendered as follows: "Though the night was clear, a star fell in the form of rain" (il tomba une étoile en forme de pluie). The annals of the Bamboo Books obviously refer to ...
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