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144 pages of results. 551. The Birth of Venus from Jupiter [Journals] [Kronos]
... I not claim this, but in the paper under review [" Venus - a Youthful Planet"] I stress that a cometary body could not have such an origin. Thus the entirety of Motz' argument on this score, and only with corrected figures, could apply to the early version of Professor Vsekhsviatsky's theory of the origin of comets by volcanic eruption from Jupiter, but not to my concept. In Worlds in Collision I started the story with the protoplanet Venus already on a stretched elliptical orbit around the sun, approaching the Earth. In the book I wrote: "I intend to go further back into the past and piece together the story of some earlier cosmic ...
552. Challenges to Evolutionary Gradualism [Books]
... only the crust moved, not the whole Earth [2 : pp. 161-164]. Other scenarios of catastrophe, some but not all involving changes of tilt, have invoked extraterrestrial factors as the causal agents. As we have already seen, William Whiston formulated a catastrophist theory in the seventeenth century based on the assumed close passage of a comet. Then, in 1823, the German linguist J. G. Radlof argued that a large planet orbiting between Jupiter and Mars had been struck by a comet in historical times, with devastating consequences: one piece of the shattered planet came into close contact with Mars, which caused it to move into an almost circular orbit around the ...
553. The Tide, Part 1 Venus Ch.3 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... From "Worlds in Collision" © 1950 by Immanuel Velikovsky | FULL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE Contents The Tide The ocean tides are produced by the action of the sun and to a larger extent by that of the moon. A larger body than the moon or one nearer to the earth would act with greater effect. A comet with a head as large as the earth, passing sufficiently close, would raise the waters of the oceans miles high.(1 ) The slowing down or stasis of the earth in its rotation would cause a tidal recession of water toward the poles,(2 ) but the celestial body near by would disturb this poleward recession, drawing the water ...
554. Karl Popper and Evolutionary Theory (Vox Populi) [Journals] [Kronos]
... any other physical explanation except that the view was obscured by a canopy of dust particles" almost certainly "of cosmic origin". A meteor shower is in fact a cloud of dust, sand, and pebbles, but so highly rarefied that it affords very feeble resistance to starlight. Faint stars have been seen shining through the tails of comets, which are believed to be the source of meteor showers. A fine haze could dim the light of the stars, however, or the brilliance of the meteors could temporarily outdazzle them. The explicit statement of the T'ung Chien Kang Mu that the sky was cloudless is probably an inference from the comment in the Tso Chuan that " ...
555. Sidelights on Velikovsky's 'Ages in Chaos' [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... epochal departure of the Israelites from Egypt and the capture of royal power in that country by the Hyksos took place in the same period- according to my own calculation, in the year 1448 before the age of Jesus of Galilee.1 At that time, Velikovsky proved in his pioneer work Worlds in Collision (1950), a colossal comet was ravaging the Earth, which classic chroniclers named Typhon. To the Greek and Latin information about the comet that Velikovsky gathered with truly marvelous pains-taking, I am now able to add a notice I found in Gershom Scholem's Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah.2 On page 438 of this fascinating volume we learn that in the year 1666 ...
556. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... of the right size and composition to have been debris from the Santorini (There) eruption in the eastern Mediterranean. Halley, Another Surprise sources: NATURE 321, pp.259-366; NEW SCIENTIST 22.5 .86, p.30 There is an excellent Supplement in NATURE giving details of the physics, chemistry and geology of Halley's comet as deduced from the data from the Giotto probe (early data was given by us in C & C WORKSHOP 1986:1 , p.29; see also letters on pp.37-38). Among the surface features of Halley's comet are raised circles resembling craters. The craters have hollow slopes much like the ones on the Moon ...
557. The Hurricane, Part 1 Venus Ch.3 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... From "Worlds in Collision" © 1950 by Immanuel Velikovsky | FULL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE Contents The Hurricane THE SWIFT shifting of the atmosphere under the impact of the gaseous parts of the comet, the drift of air attracted by the body of the comet, and the rush of the atmosphere resulting from inertia when the earth stopped rotating or shifted its poles, all contributed to produce hurricanes of enormous velocity and force and of worldwide dimensions. Manuscript Troano and other documents of the Mayas describe a cosmic catastrophe during which the ocean fell on the continent, and a terrible hurricane swept the earth.(1 ) The hurricane broke up and carried away all towns and all forests. ...
558. Stephen Jay Gould and Immanuel Velikovsky [Books]
... . The A.A .A .S Symposium on Velikovsky 3. The A.A .A .S . Affair From Twenty Years After 4. Henry H. Bauer And Immanuel Velikovsky 5. Beneath Bauer 6. All Honorable Men, Journalists and Scientists as Misrepresenters 7. Cometary Venus 8. Bob Forrest and Venus As A Comet In World Mythology 9. Asimov in Absurdity 10. Pompous Asimov 11. Stephen Jay Gould and Immanuel Velikovsky 12. A Rage to Deny - The Roots of the Velikovsky Affair 13. From Calendars to Chronology Stephen Jay Gould and Immanuel Velikovsky Charles Ginenthal "For what a man rather were true he more readily believes." Francis Bacon ...
559. KA [Books]
... stella' means Phosphorus and Hesperus, i.e . the planet Venus. The Latin jubar is the radiance of a heavenly body. Ar is divine fire. Juba is the flowing mane or hair of an animal, the crest of a serpent, the crest of a helmet, the foliage of trees, and the tail of a comet. Q-CD vol 12: KA, Ch. 5: Deities of Delphi 84 Notes (Chapter Five: Deities of Delphi) 1. Homer: Iliad' XXI:511 2. Aeschylus: Agamemnon' 1085 3. Homer: Iliad' XX:131 4. Cicero: De Divinatione' I:24 5. Vergil: ...
560. The Cause of Gravitation [Books]
... . Newton evidently judged others by his own competence as a thinker, and it now appears that he was over complimentary to many of the savants of the day. "If anyone should explain gravity and all its laws by the action of some subtle medium," Newton wrote, "and should show that the motions of the planets and comets are not disturbed by this matter, I should by no means oppose it." (" Subtle medium" is, today, a synonymous term for defining electrical phenomena.) Since the time of Newton the theory of the universal mutual attraction of masses has been developed by writers from hypothesis to an ostensible fact. This build-up is ...
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