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383 pages of results. 131. The Center Holds [Journals] [Pensee]
... revolution for which not even the familiar cases- Copernicus, Newton, Darwin- are adequate precedents. His reconstruction of the history of the solar system will not be accepted widely unless articulate readers who have found it sound persist in demanding objective ... complex single form of life, man. It is not surprising that in 1950 physicists felt absolved from considering Velikovsky's historical evidence because it contradicted their "known laws." He foresaw conflict from the beginning, and in the original ... his task there has been to align records left by the ancients, he has been engaged in an activity, historiography, which is in itself a mode of behavior- organic, human, rational- that forms its own subject. While ...
132. Velikovsky and the El-Amarna period [Journals] [SIS Review]
... placed in the 7th century BC. The data from these chronologies are supported by additional arguments from Egyptian and biblical history and from Greek legends and point to about 680BC for the end of the El-Amarna period. Although some fine-tuning is ... . This makes an identification of Teutamos with an Assyrian king difficult and the time of the Trojan war, if historical, unknown. The time of Semiramis is set at 805-800 [65] and also Herodotus places her five generations ... 6 ), 1994, p. 35; G. Heinsohn, The Restoration of Ancient History. Did the Historians of Classical Greece Merely Leave Us Lies and Phantasies about all the Major Empires, Nations and Events of Antiquity? ...
133. RECONSTRUCTING THE SATURN MYTH [Journals] [Aeon]
... Reconstructing the Saturn Myth David Talbott The origins of ancient mythology; the birth of the first civilizations; a violent history of the solar system: these are the primary themes of the general theory highlighted in the following pages. If ... In his best-selling and highly controversial Worlds in Collision, Velikovsky had argued that the planets moved on unstable courses in historical times, with more than one errant planet passing close enough to the Earth to produce global destruction. The most ... of Velikovsky's claims was that the planet Venus once roamed the sky as a comet. Without going into the details of Velikovsky's thesis here, (1 ) I must emphasize that the initial direction of my own research followed the uniquely ...
134. Forum Part Two [Journals] [SIS Review]
... become European enlightenment [17]. Historically and culturally, this is by far the most crucial period of human history, since all major intellectual and religious concepts of mankind were formed or reformed during this time. Consequently, scientists ... ) Home | Issue Contents Forum Part Two Was the Cambridge Conference a Flop?( Evidence for multiple catastrophes in historical times) the challenge, set by Benny J. Peiser "But the derivative from an impact will give you ... links the final destruction of Late Bronze III to the so-called Sea Peoples who used to be held responsible by mainstream historians for the collapse of the Bronze Age civilisations in the Near East [29]. Within the SIS, Geoffrey ...
135. Heinsohn's Ancient "History" [Journals] [Aeon]
... From: Aeon V:4 (July 1999) Home | Issue Contents Heinsohn's Ancient "History"Ev Cochrane It is with a profound sense of ambivalence that I write this article, taking a critical stance towards the historical ... of Gunnar Heinsohn. Not only do I regard Gunnar as a personal friend; he has long been a supporter of AEON, first as a contributor of numerous articles and also through featured appearances at various symposia. Yet the suspicion ... any evidence." [18] Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-i Rustam. Is it possible to imagine any historian describing Darius in such disparaging and unflattering terms? Hammurabi, as we have seen, was of Semitic descent. ...
136. Velikovsky and his Heroes [Articles]
... in general, and of particular difficulty for the Jewish people, the people of Velikovsky, unparalleled in their long history. Alfred de Grazia has written that Velikovsky's ponderous, direct and clearly conceived kind of political action emerged in the ... This concept underlies the talk I propose to give here. I propose to treat Ages in Chaos not as a historical work, but as a literary work, that is to say that Velikovsky's motivation in producing Ages in Chaos and ... we all met for the first time and decided the Society was on, and formed it. Martin is a historian from Oxford, at present he is doing journalism with the Belfast Herald - Telegraph, I beg your pardon. ...
137. Reopening the Sumerian Question [Journals] [Aeon]
... Reopening the Sumerian Question Jan Sammer Until about a hundred years ago, no one suspected that at the dawn of history an advanced and sophisticated culture had laid the foundations of the arts and sciences. Today it is claimed that " ... realization that in Egypt and Sumer the fundamentals of civilized life had been discovered some 1500 years earlier. The revised historical scheme formulated by Gunnar Heinsohn on the following pages is the logical consequence of a dramatic finding: that the period ... the Abraham legend, it was left for him to discover just how pivotal Abraham's dating is for the entire ancient historiography. Since the biblical narrative indicates that a developed culture existed in Mesopotamia in the time of Abraham, the most ...
138. 'No Impact': René Gallant (1906-1985) [Books]
... , ever seeking to show that yesterday's truth' has now been made irrelevant. This discourages the study of its history, particularly in new areas of science. Despite, or perhaps because of, this, disputes about who first ... of priority (within geology particularly in taxonomy & in stratigraphic practice). Such science thus has to be highly historic , but much else does not. Historians have two tasks among many. One is to uncover but not to ... the past. The other is to understand the relative contributions made by different people in that past. With the latter, we are often on difficult ground in trying to weigh up the priority of contributions against the influence of such ...
139. Velikovsky and His Heroes [Journals] [SIS Review]
... and His Heroes Martin Sieff (c ) Martin Sieff 1984 Martin Sieff has an Honours B.A . in history from Oxford University. After postgraduate study at London University in the history of 20th-century Palestine he has worked as a ... of Kronos, and Editorial Associate of the S.I .S . Review to which he has contributed several historical studies. Martin Sieff's highly original - and often provocative - analysis of Velikovsky's writings demonstrates the error of those critics ... A blitzkrieg. The Assyrian army was the German war machine of the ancient world. And indeed, as one historian has written - a uniformitarian, conventional historian, I hasten to add - "With their arrogant bearded faces, ...
140. A Personal Reminiscence [Journals] [Aeon]
... Gordon Atwater, then director of the Hayden Planetarium and Chairman of the Astronomy Department of the American Museum of Natural History, and James Putnam, associate editor of Macmillan; they were both summarily dismissed from their positions. Atwater had ... . Already in 1946, O'Neill had referred to Velikovsky's manuscript before its publication as "a magnificent piece of scholarly historical research;" Larrabee and Lear wrote articles in Harper's and Collier's announcing Velikovsky's work as a major discovery, ranking ... no regard for truth, seeking only self-aggrandizement. The scientists who condemned Velikovsky's astronomy as trash sought the aid of historians and biblical scholars to strip Velikovsky's historical research of any merit, although it was clear to everyone who read Velikovsky's ...
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