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60 pages of results. 311. Editor's Page [Journals] [Aeon]
... trying to tell us something." According to anthropologist Lamberg-Karlovsky: "The gods were angry." "In Egypt, Babylonia, the Indus and China," said Lamberg-Karlovsky, "rulers legitimized their rule [through astronomical knowledge]. This system was damn near universal." And yet, expert scrutiny of "steles, hieroglyphics and Chinese oracle bones" have so far revealed "not a shred of evidence that anyone observed the last coming." Having had the opportunity to see Hale-Bopp with my own unaided eyes, I was not overly impressed. It was by far the brightest comet I have ever had the fortune to observe. But a spectacle in the sky! ...
312. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Review]
... the luckiest guess in all literature' and its origins are something of a mystery. A fascinating essay by Charles McDowell Catstrophism and Puritan Thought: the Newton Era' gives some possible answers. McDowell links Swift's work with Newton and other leading scientists of the time such as Leibniz. The original source of the observation appears to have been ancient Chinese records which may now be in the archives of the British Museum. McDowell's essay is published in A Symposium on Creation VI (Editor Donald W. Patten, 1977), available from Pacific Meridian Publishing Co., 13540 39th Ave. NE, Seattle, WA 98125, USA, $3 .95+ 15% p& ...
313. Book Shelf [Journals] [Aeon]
... but clandestinely so? Or is there really something there that we shouldn't be permitted to see or know about? No matter- someday we'll truly know for certain what's hidden in the sands of Mars. Peter James, Earth in Chaos (Polar Publishing: Calgary) 1993 Reviewed by Lorence G. Collins Examining past archaeological and historical events from Chinese and Mediterranean records, Peter James writes a fascinating short book of ten chapters that will tantalize your imagination about the early history of civilization. The idea that "things may not always have been as ordered as we see them today" is the basis for analyzing and investigating huge gaps in the historical records. Postulating that the gaps result ...
314. The M.I.T. Earth Sciences Building [Journals] [Catastrophist Geology]
... to funnel through. So, much like a Greek tragic hero, it was only in striving so high that the building encountered its nemesis. The building is M.I .T . 's symbol. On a personal level, it shows what M.I .T . training does to students from foreign cultures. A traditional Chinese, filled with the Tao, would never have forgotten earth, wind, and light to design such an embarrassing monument to the study of the earth. In soaring so high, and in straining so hard for Western values, the building renders visible the internal contradictions of Pei's genius, for, as Marx pointed out, it is ...
315. Proceedings of the 2nd SIS Cambridge Conference [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... Raspopov, Johannes van der Plicht, Hans Renssen: Solar forcing of abrupt Climate Change around 850 calendar years BC. Euan MacKie: Can European Prehistory Detect Large-Scale Natural Disasters? Gunnar Heinsohn: The Catastrophic Emergence of Civilization: The Coming of Blood Sacrifice in the Bronze Age Cultures. David W. Pankenier: Heaven-Sent: Understanding Cosmic Disaster in Chinese Myth and History. William Mullen: The Agenda of the Milesian School: The Post-Catastrophic Paradigm Shift in Ancient Greece. Irving Wolfe: The Kultursturz' at the Bronze Age/Iron Age Boundary. S. V. M. Clube: The Problem of Historical Catastrophism. British Archaeological Reports -S728, 1998. Natural Catastrophes During Bronze Age ...
316. Making Moonshine with Hard Science [Books] [de Grazia books]
... a prime wall location! In Meton's name, of course. That will impress the watchtowers and astrological societies - their President in Gold Letters! He has authorized me to give them all free tickets to the Olympic Games. But not to that Barbarian who had the gall to write him, "Meton, stop reinventing the wheel. The Chinese have used your cycle for 100 years, and even the seven intercalations." Not to mention that anonymity from Egypt who sent him a tablet with just the obscenity "A " inscribed on it. Tablet ? . The gold letters are staying up, but the opposition is too strong. Meton's calendar will not be adopted after all ...
317. Day Star [Journals] [Aeon]
... caan, "the luminous (big) flower of the sky." [7 ] Here, too, it is difficult to discern the objective basis for this epithet in Venus' current appearance and behavior. Once again, however, it is possible to point to striking parallels in the stellar nomenclature of other cultures. Thus, the Chinese employed a very similar term to signify Venus: Yin-sing, "the flowery star." [8 ] The same idea is to be found amongst the Australian Aborigines, the natives of northeast Arnhem Land referring to Venus as "the Lotus" or "lily star." [9 ] Figure One It is instructive at this point ...
318. 2nd SIS Cambridge Conference Abstracts [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... 20 CalBC, Santorini in the Aegean, dated to circa 1670-1530 CalBC, and, possibly, Hekla 3, linked by Hammer and colleagues to their 1120 30 BC acid layer. It quickly became apparent, most notably through comments from Kevin Pang, that the two later events might relate in some way to the start and end of the Chinese Shang dynasty. It is equally of interest that the Egyptian New Kingdom traditionally spans the approximate range 1570 to 1080 BC. So the question arose whether these two volcano-related events could have caused widespread dynastic change. In order to proceed with this debate it is necessary to attempt to get a better handle on the nature of the effects. ...
319. Newton And Historical Science [Journals] [Kronos]
... spread only after the eleventh century B.C . This contention is followed by the further radical contention that all accounts of events that were not put down in writing at the time of their occurrence are absolutely untrustworthy. Newton carried this contention on to an extreme point, arguing, for instance, that it is unscholarly to try to reconstruct Chinese history for the period before 230 B.C . On the subject of early Roman history, he took an equally uncompromising attitude: "But the Romans, having no historian during the first 400 years of their city, I forbear to meddle further with their original antiquity." He dismissed the reliability of all accounts of Greek history ...
... the winter solstice. The significant name Epiphany', the appearance of the Star' of the Magi, the birth' of Christ, the Light of the World, the birth' of the Aeon of the Gnostics, and the fact that the Egyptians celebrated a water festival' at that date, seem to support the idea. The Chinese celebrate their New Year Festival, at which a dragon figures prominently in the procession, between January 20th and February i8th, after the Sun has entered the zodiacal sign of Aquarius. Then, too, many fireworks are let off with a great deal of noise. This dragon-water-fire-noise symbolism may well refer to the cataclysmal happenings at the beginning ...
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