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144 pages of results. 361. Velikovsky: Hero or Heretic? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... public's willingness to accept Dr Velikovsky's authority on the same footing as their own. My own feeling is that it never hurts an expert to have an outsider come along and point out that he may have missed a thing or two. What did the astronomers miss, according to Velikovsky? The essential idea in Dr Velikovsky's theory is that a comet or planet collided repeatedly with the earth in the fifteenth century BC and initiated another series of collisions in the eighth century BC, altering the course of history and causing legends of ancient peoples. Many details are grafted onto this basic element in the theory. The colliding planet was Venus; it came out of Jupiter; it was the ...
362. He Who Shines by Day [Books] [de Grazia books]
... , also the planet Venus. No one appears to have said so, but the evidence is strong to that effect. Velikovsky and the scholars associated with him have presented evidence that Pallas Athene was the god of the planet Venus, that the planet appeared in the sky sometime before 1500 B.C ., that she behaved as a comet, traveled on an eccentric orbit that brought her perilously close to Earth, and that around 1500 B.C . and on several other occasions caused tremendous destruction here. The foundations or refounding of the city of Athens may be of this date [1 ], just as those of Rome were concurrent with the raging appearance in the ...
363. Collective Amnesia: A Brief History of the Concept [Journals] [Kronos]
... theory is an extension of his investigation of the Atlantis myth, which is the subject of his first book, Atlantis: The Antediluvian World (1882). Like Velikovsky, who developed his theory while reconstructing ancient Near East history, Donnelly's catastrophism is an extension of his fascinating synthesis. Whereas Velikovsky is led to follow the tale of a comet beginning with Moses and the Exodus, Donnelly's story begins with Plato and the destruction of Atlantis. Donnelly's theory, in capsule form, maintains that Atlantis was destroyed when, in his Velikovsky-like words (published sixty-seven years before Worlds in Collision), "a serpent-like comet struck the earth".(12) Additionally, like Velikovsky, ...
364. The Mars Mystery: The Secret Connection Between Earth and the Red Planet by Graham Hancock [Journals] [Aeon]
... a cosmic body in ages past with the loss of its oceans and atmosphere, accompanied by massive displacements of its crust. He also summarizes a considerable body of contemporary efforts to resuscitate catastrophism by world class scholars, who themselves are no less equally concerned that our own planet Earth is exposed to grave dangers from space in the form of rogue comets and asteroids. It's edifying to realize how perceptions have changed over just a couple of decades, and especially since the well-publicized comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 did its thing on Jupiter back in July 1994! Since then there has been a raft of articles, books, and films depicting excitingly graphic catastrophic scenarios, as well as a rising ground swell ...
365. Apollo Objects, Atlantis and the Deluge: A Catastrophical Scenario for the End of the Last Glaciation [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... as the agents of destruction, and seemed to regard his unorthodox planetary physics as a major breakthrough rather than an awkward ad hoc measure. Spedicato also adduces a remarkable explanation of the special role of Venus and Mars in Babylonian records... given by Clube and Napier, in terms of orbital periods, commensurability between these planets and the comets Hencke and Halley' [3 ], and notes that, like Velikovsky, Clube and Napier claim that errors of centuries affect the traditional egyptian [sic] chronology. ' [4 ] In fact these two elements in The Cosmic Serpent [5 ] are quietly dropped from Clube and Napier's sequel, The Cosmic Winter, published too ...
366. The Cambridge Conference [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... by extra-terrestrial agents than had been evident with our historians. Wal Thornhill proved no exception in his consideration of the planet Venus after a study of the images received from the Magellan orbiter. Velikovsky's predictions of a very high temperature and a massive atmosphere, indications of a young planet, had been amply confirmed. The planet's magnetosphere also indicated a comet tail. Juergens' consideration of the surface of the Moon and Mars indicated that the Moon bore electrical scars. A recent outburst of Halley's comet at the time of a solar flare similarly indicated the electrical nature of the universe. The planets lie within the Sun's plasma sheath but Venus would appear to be still charged with respect to the ...
367. Zeus And Athene, Part 1 Venus Ch.9 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... killed her father, Typhon-Pallas, the celestial monster, and the description of this battle is not different from that of the battle in which Zeus killed Typhon. Under the weight of many arguments, I came to the conclusion- about which I no longer have any doubt- that it was the planet Venus, at the time still a comet, that caused the catastrophe of the days of Exodus. Then why do a part of the legends tie up this event with Jupiter? The cause of this duality in the mythological handling of an historical event lies in the fact that the ancients themselves did not know for certain which of the planets had caused the destruction. Some saw ...
368. Are The Venus Tablets Missing?, Atwater Thrown Overboard. File I (Stargazers and Gravediggers) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Stargazers]
... which I could have answered the questions in their minds, did not materialize. On Sunday, April 2, the leading review of the Book Review was by the paper's science editor, Waldemar Kaempffert. A picture of a medieval astronomer adorned the front page. The title across the width of the page read: "The Tale of Velikovsky's Comet." Kaempffert's main argument was this: If Venus did not become a planet until 1500 B.C . and therefore in historic times, ancient records should bear out Dr. Velikovsky.... The rising and setting of the planet was recorded systematically in the reign of King Ammizaduga, who ruled Babylonia in the sixteenth century ...
369. The Science of Catastrophism [Articles]
... hardly anyone believed it. How could it be true? Had not science told us that the world was benign and the sky was stable and the universe was a clockwork which would tick without upheaval forever, and that humankind's only task was to try to understand it? That was 1950. Today, however, we have just witnessed the comets of Shoemaker- Levy thudding into Jupiter one by one, vast hammer blows upon the giant planet, any one of which (and there were 21) would singly have wiped out much of life on Earth, and we have learned that the sky is not what we thought it was. It is not placid, nor eternal, ...
370. Zetetic Scholar Nos. 6 July 1980 [Articles]
... if Velikovsky and Establishment Science were substituted for Scientists Confront Velikovsky and other nouns appropriately reversed. Actually, it is the Velikovsky supporters who read every detail written by his opponents and respond to the occasional logical arguments as well as the others. An example is the comment about the comet-like Venus. This has been answered many times. The word comet is derived from a Greek word for "hair" and was applied .to celestial objects that had tails giving the appearance of beards. The ancients described a time when Venus appeared to have hair and, hence, appeared comet-like (see details about properties in, for example, The Aqe of Velikovsky). It was magnanimous of ...
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