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220 pages of results. 591. L. Sprague de Camp: Anatomy of a Zetetic [Journals] [Kronos]
... revived again with stunning success by Immanuel Velikovsky." Velikovsky's theories have indeed met with stunning scientific success (despite de Camp's allusion to "countless" confutations). The fact is that Velikovsky's historical and cosmological theories are the only such theories to have fared well when put to the test of all the new scientific information that has come to light in the past quarter of a century: that information has provided an unprecedented degree of solid confirmation for Velikovsky's theories and clear disconfirmation of rival theories. If de Camp had ever read Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision, he would know better than to say that the idea of a collision between Earth and a cometary body "began in the eighteenth ...
592. Problems of Electricity in Astronomy [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Problem THERE IS SOMETHING SIMPLE and satisfying about gravitational forces in astronomical problems. All bodies have mass, and this attracts other mass. The force between centres of gravity varies inversely as the square of the distance. Acceleration is proportional to the force and inversely to the mass. As the velocity increases things become more complicated and the velocity of light is involved. These problems are generally well understood and form the basis of conventional celestial mechanics. Almost everything is orderly and changes are gradual . Catastrophes like collisions are rare. Much later in the history of astronomy, the spectroscopic analysis of light enabled magnetic fields to be detected in stars and galaxies, but only powerful electric fields could ...
593. Editorial [Journals] [SIS Review]
... we quote here, with permission, some conclusions reached by the editors of the Pensée series "Immanuel Velikovsky Reconsidered" following the five major American symposia of 1974, and stated in full on page 43 of the tenth and final issue: i) As a result of processes already under way, Velikovsky's work will be tested and evaluated in light of the evidence. No latter-day efforts at suppression - and these efforts continue with little abatement - will suffice to stifle the intellectual curiosity now aroused and the concrete investigations begun. It is only a matter of time. ii) It is damaging to Velikovsky's own defence and to catastrophist research in general for debate to centre on the question ...
594. The Early Years: Part Two [Journals] [Aeon]
... Berlin included two pretenders to the Romanov throne, rival Kadet factions led by historian Pavel Miliukov and Nabokov's father, Velikovsky's old neighbor Chaliapin, Wassily Kandinsky, Vladimir Horowitz, and Fyodor Vinberg, a czarist officer who probably brought the first copies of The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion with him to Germany- the book had seen the light of day in the year of Velikovsky's birth and migrated to the West at virtually the same time as Velikovsky; very quickly it sold more than 100,000 copies and had a tremendous impact on Alfred Rosenberg, the official Nazi philosopher. (3 ) Besides the large Russian contingent, Velikovsky also had ties with another important ethnic group ...
595. Velikovsky and the Problem of Planetary Identification [Journals] [Aeon]
... : Platonic: Kronos=Saturn; Zeus=Jupiter; Ares=Mars; Hermes=Mercury; and Aphrodite=Venus Hellenistic: Phainon=Saturn; Phaethon=Jupiter; Pyroeis=Mars; Stilbon=Mercury; and Phosphorus=Venus (8 ) The planetary identifications in Eratosthenes and Hyginus contain still more variants. (9 ) In light of these variations how is the researcher to distinguish between valid evidence and invalid? And if the planetary identifications of the Greeks are not always to be relied upon, what does this signify for Velikovsky's thesis as a whole? The Testimony of Egypt and Mesopotamia The Egyptian testimony with regard to planet-worship, unfortunately, is mostly late. Thus ...
596. Venus' Atmosphere [Journals] [Pensee]
... . Thus, when we speak of the atmosphere of Venus and its composition, we need to define one of the three areas as the subject of discussion: the upper atmosphere, the dense cloud layer, or the lower atmosphere. By means of spectral analysis we cannot reach the lower atmosphere- unless we deal with the emission spectrum of the light that glows through the cloud. Of the cloud layer we can know by means of a spectral analysis only the constituents of its top layer, because we have only the reflection spectrum which, as Burgstahler stated, is not as clear in revealing the composition of the layer as an emission spectrum (only from hot substances) or absorption ...
597. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... the jaw, they surmise. Why then, we wonder, did the lizards survive with primitive jaws and teeth? Terminal Eocene Event source: New Scientist 3.6 .82, p. 647 We have reported previously on a "terminal Eocene event" in Workshop's 3:3 and 4:2 . Now evidence has come to light that the Eocene-Oligocene boundary is not only marked with microtektites and the extinction of species but is associated with anomalously high concentrations of iridium - just as at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary (see Workshops 3:1 , 3:2 , 3:4 , 4:2 , 4:4 ). R. Ganapathy has investigated the Eocene-Oligocene boundary ...
598. The Empire Strikes Back [Books] [de Grazia books]
... would occur in the expansion and testing of the list. Deg wished that he might complete the list concerning V., then move to other cases in science, and then to all occupations to display the universal prevalence of misdemeanor, not so much to scandalize, nor to stop it all (an impossibility), as to expose to light the epidemic predicament. When asked to place them into categories (for Deg was distressed by their stringing out aimlessly) V. divided them into: suppression of publication; punishment and rewards; examination of the theories refused; ostracism of a nonconformist; rewriting of history and scientific finds; control of criticism; unfair criticism; and unfair ...
599. The Birth Of Venus, Part 1 Venus Ch.8 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... comet along its own ellipse; a part of the tail is retained by the parent comet on its new orbit. Ancient Mexican records give the order of the occurrences. The sun was attacked by Quetzal-cohuatl; after the disappearance of this serpent-shaped heavenly body, the sun refused to shine, and during four days the world was deprived of its light; a great many people died at that time. Thereafter, the snakelike body transformed itself into a great star. The star retained the name of Quetzal-cohuatl (Quetzalcoatl). This great and brilliant star appeared for the first time in the east.(16) Quetzal-cohuatl is the well-known name of the planet Venus.(17) ...
600. News from the Internet [Journals] [SIS Review]
... predictable. But new vistas in the sciences often expose flaws in notions that once seemed obvious. Only a few decades ago, all well-trained, feet-on-the-ground scientists "knew" that- Space is empty and cannot conduct electricity; Magnetic fields do not exist in space; The tails of comets are pushed away from the Sun by the pressure of light; Jupiter and Saturn have been cold and inactive since the early history of the solar system; The planet Mars has been geologically dead for more than a billion years; Venus is our "sister planet," with temperatures close to those of the Earth; There are no other galaxies outside our own; There is no evidence for ...
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