Catastrophism: Man, Myth and Mayhem in Ancient History and the Sciences

351. The Aristotelian Cosmos [Journals] [Velikovskian]

... we would be better off in our knowledge of ancient astronomy if Ptolemy had never lived, for the seeming perfection of the Almagest prevented the copying of earlier books on astronomy that contained genuine observations. This argument is especially unpalatable to Owen Gingerich who states that Ptolemy was the greatest astronomer in antiquity. Such later scientists as Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein also put theory ahead of observations, says, Gingerich, and Ptolemy may have chosen from a large number of observations those that agreed with his tables." 45 What this author finds most distressing about the position taken by Owen Gingerich, who was the grey eminence behind the AAAS Symposium on Velikovsky, is that he is upholding the ...

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352. Cataclysms of the Earth [Books]

... The atom bomb has demolished older ideas, and appears to have established the equivalence of mass and energy. Two principles, the very cornerstones of the structure of modern science, hold that neither matter nor energy can be created or destroyed-but only altered in form. The quantitative equivalence of mass and energy is based on the accepted-but unproven-suggestion by Albert Einstein that the relationship of energy, E, to mass, m, is shown in the equation E = mc2, where c is the velocity of light. If measured according to our conventional time-distance reckoning, the velocity of light is estimated at 186,300 miles per second. From this, there has come to be a general ...

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353. The Velikovsky Affair [Books] [de Grazia books]

... of those who proclaimed that they had peremptory arguments galore, but did not submit a single one. Only a few scientists of note showed a spirit of scholarly cooperation by providing friendly criticism and additional information. Among them were W. S. Adams, G. Atwater, V. A. Bailey, V. Bargmann, A. Einstein, A. Goldsmith, H. H. Hess, H. S. Jones, J. S. Miller, P. L. Mercanton, C. W. van der Merwe, L. Motz, and S. K. Vsekhsviatsky. In contrast with the rational attitude of these men, several other great names affixed ...

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