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144 pages of results. 621. Greek Debt To Babylonians [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... is one early and one late to give the range of ideas as well as dates. Herodotus II.109.3 says that "knowledge of the sundial (polos) and the gnomon and the twelve divisions of the day came into Greece from Babylon". Seneca (Natural Questions VII,4 ,1 ) cites the views on comets of two Greeks who say they studied among the Chaldaeans, Epigenes and Apollonius of Myndus. "Apollonius says that the Chaldaeans place comets in the category of planets and have determined their orbits." Epigenes disagreed with him and said the Chaldaeans knew nothing about them, seeing them as bits of twisted atmosphere. (I would rather believe ...
622. Predicting The Past [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... settled once and for all. Ever sine Darwin, the great majority of historians, anthropologists, and geologists have assumed that the doctrine of gradual evolution was proven beyond need for further discussion. Today, the tide has turned somewhat. Now school children are taught that the extinction of the dinosaurs was due to the crashing to Earth of a comet or an asteroid sixty million years ago. Astronomers have written books about how asteroid and comet impacts destroyed past civilizations and threaten our present one. Experts in the field of dendrochronology have concluded that tree-ring data show steep environmental downturns within historical times, and that these events seem to be tied to celestial phenomena. The present work is a ...
623. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Review]
... evolution but the history of ideas about evolution. Fortey believes chance survival after catastrophes was a greater force in evolution than slow steady natural selection and, in fact, the greatest amount of natural selection has probably been between different palaeontologists fighting behind the scenes for the acceptance of their individual theories. Fortey mentions the changing ideas about the role of comets in evolution, how Hoyle and Velikovsky were pillaried for their ideas but now impacts and cometary bombardment are acceptable in the history of life on Earth. But', says Fortey, if you look at the scientific references you won't find anyone quoting Velikovsky or Hoyle. As far as the comet saga is concerned, like so many species ...
624. Thoth Vol I, No. 5: March 14, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... ....... Michael Armstrong THE MYTH OF THE GOLDEN AGE....................David Talbott Movie Review: REMEMBERING THE END OF THE WORLD..............Steven Parsons THE VENUS COMET (2 ). .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Wal Thornhill- EDITORIAL SECTION By Michael Armstrong (mikamar@e-z.net) Quote of the day: "Tiger got to hunt Bird got to fly Man got to sit ...
625. When Earth Was Not Yet Created: An Account of Sumerian Cosmogony [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... VA.243 (Fig. 1). It will be shown that Enuma elish is based on plausible scientific theories concerning the process by which our solar system has taken shape, including a cataclysmic celestial collision. We find in the ancient text answers to some puzzles attending modern theories concerning Earth, the Moon, the Asteroid belt, the comets, Pluto, and even a presumption of the existence of a "Planet X."7 Lines 1-2 of the Akkadian text8 establish the time frame: Heaven and Earth (" firm ground") have not yet been created, nor are there any other celestial gods (Tablet I, fine 7) except three: 3 Naught ...
626. The Carolina Bays. Ch.7 Deserts And Oceans (Earth In Upheaval) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Earth in Upheaval]
... to their origin must explain their form, the ellipticity of which increases with the size of the bays; their parallel alignment; and the elevated rims at their southeastern ends. In 1933 a theory was presented by Melton and Schriever of the University of Oklahoma, according to which the bays are scars left by a "meteoric shower or colliding comet."2 Since then the majority of the authors who have dealt with the problem have accepted this view, and it has found its way into textbooks as the usual interpretation.3 The authors of the theory stress the fact that, "Since the origin of the bays apparently cannot be explained by the well-known types of geological activity ...
627. The Reflective Canopy Model and the Mytho-historical Record [Journals] [Aeon]
... , must necessarily be kept as short as possible. My intention, therefore, is to stress those aspects of the model which constitute its major components and which, together, serve to illustrate its central the-matic structure. 2. The Model and its Precursors Harking back to an idea that owes its inception to William Whiston, Zysman looks upon comets as having been responsible for terrestrial catastrophism. In 1696 it had been Whiston's belief that the Noachian deluge was caused by a previous close passage of the comet of 1680. (1 ) More recently, cometary catastrophism has once again been brought to the fore by Victor Clube and Bill Napier. (2 ) In between, there lived ...
628. The Original Star of Dawn [Articles]
... and Talbott have developed this theme, the cometary tail of Venus continued to widen its spiral until it eventually congealed into a toroidal ring visually seen through terrestrial perspective to enclose the Saturnian orb. This led to a series of universal myths which, in different but related terms, describe the casting of the cosmic serpent-i.e . the Venerian comet- outside the deity's domain and how this serpent continued to grow until it completely surrounded the Saturnian orb while grasping its tail in its own mouth. The Venerian orb itself continued to orbit the Saturnian center just outside the periphery of the newly created Saturnian band. Thus, in Mesopotamia, the planet received the epithet of "Edge Star ...
629. The Cyclic Nature of Ancient Catastrophes [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... was of sufficient importance in their view to merit its own place in the cosmic pantheon, and its own temple. Why? Perhaps the principle of resonance provides a clue. Another question: were the ancients aware of such astronomical cycles of catastrophism as we describe in our model? Mary Proctor writes: It was not till the time ofHalley's comet in 1682, that modern astronomy began to consider the question of the possibly periodic character of cometic motions with attention. (For my own part, I reject as altogether improbable the statement of Seneca that the ancient Chaldean astronomers could calculate the return of comets.)19 Perhaps Miss Proctor should ask if the concerns of ancients and their ...
630. New Scenarios for Solar System Evolution [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... As a consequence, the South Pole was placed near the current magnetic pole, on the coast of Antarctica facing Australia. The coast of Antarctica facing the Atlantic, therefore, was placed at a much lower latitude and was completely free of ice, as witnessed by conclusive geological evidence. At the end of Pleistocene, an asteroid or a comet impact triggered a shift of the poles, according to the mechanism explained in the previous communication. This resulted in the world-wide catastrophe remembered by traditions as the "universal flood", during which Atlantis sunk (temporarily) in the ocean. Soon after, the glaciation covered the Atlantic coasts of Antarctica, thus deleting all archaeological evidence. ...
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