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19 pages of results. 161. The Aristotelian Cosmos [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... old dangerous planetary gods of the past, Aristotle and his followers protected the Earth with every device at their command. Danger from the heavens was tamed completely and eternally; nothing could ever catastrophically destroy or endanger the world they maintained. (not even rocks from heaven). What I am submitting is that Aristotle (as did Newton, Lyell, Darwin and others) created a uniformitarian universe, not the real universe, from a deeply rooted unconscious dread that if even one major facet of his defensive cosmological creation should be shown to be incorrect then the entire protective scheme would collapse and cataclysms could occur, which was contrary to the foundation of Aristotle's cosmology. There would be ...
162. The Periodic Cyclicism Of Ancient Catastrophes [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... autumn catastrophes, just weeks before the dreaded flyby, Mars appeared to be passing through first the constellations Orion and shortly thereafter, through the Pleiades. The 1990's is an age wherein we have suffered through five consecutive generations, 150+ years of gradualism as the central dogma in historical geology. Sometimes it is called "Lyellianism" after Charles Lyell, and sometimes "uniformitarianism". If our scenario of planetary catastrophism is correct, gradualism, still the central dogma in interpreting historical geology, is nonsense. The major features of the physical geography of our planet were sculpted by many, repeating, close Mars flybys. One of the greatest questions ever asked a person, or a ...
... was estimated at 180 feet in height, which is considerably higher than the Nelson Monument in Trafalgar Square, London. The tidal wave which crossed 6000 miles over the Pacific Ocean from Japan to California in September 1923, must have been of great height originally and proved an enormous displacement of the waters. In the Lisbon Earthquake of 1755, Lyell says the tidal wave was 60 feet high at Cadiz, 260 miles distant, damaged fishing boats in Kinsale Harbour, Ireland, and was felt as far distant as in the St. Lawrence River, Canada. The Krakatoa Eruption-Earthquake of 1883 produced a tidal wave which according to Professor T. G. Bonney disturbed the ocean as far ...
... The latitude in which it will flourish has steadily diminished within recent centuries and is still diminishing. The wine growers along the Meuse and Moselle are finding this out. The deadly phylloxera plants its eggs among vines which are no longer robust and both humidity and lack of warmth undermine the vitality of the vine. Arago, an authority quoted by Lyell, relating to a period of about a hundred years ago, discussed the growing frigidity of France as proved by her grapes: "The summers, according to him, were formerly hotter in France than in our times. His evidence is derived chiefly from documents showing that wine was made three centuries ago in the Vivarais and several other ...
... ., F.G .S . Primeval world of Switzerland. HERODTUS. History. Holinshead's Chronicles. HOWE, PROF. Study of the Sky. HOWE, GORDON. Roman London. JOSEPHUS. Antiquity of the Jews. KNIGHT, C. History of England. LEWIN, J. Bible Records of Earth's changes- Earthquakes- Mana's Records. LYELL, SIR CHAS., F.G .S . Elements of Geology- Principles of Geology. MALLET. Northern Antiquities. (Bishop Percy's Edn.) MCPHERSON, J. G. Meteorology. MOSSO, SIG. ANGELO. Dawn of Mediterranean Civilisation. MURRAY (SIR J. M.) and HART, PROF. Depths of ...
166. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Review]
... terrestrial natural selection has been able to operate". To this reviewer it is a paradox that they can write on page 8: "In science one must steel oneself not to decide the correctness or otherwise of ideas according to subjective prejudice. In science, fact reigns supreme." - and follow this on page 152 with: "Lyell believed deeply in the long-term constancy of the terrestrial environment, a belief which modern geology has fully vindicated at any rate for the past 1000 million years." It is quite clear that neither of these eminent men can have read Velikovsky's Earth in Upheaval! Earlier in their book they claim that mediaeval doctors were enabled to stumble on the ...
167. The Importance of Outsiders in Science [Journals] [SIS Review]
... on heat engines and was effectively the founder of the discipline of thermodynamics. He determined that heat was essentially work, or rather work that has changed its form. Carnot calculated a conversion constant for heat and work and proposed that the total quantity of work in the universe is constant - thus coining the First Law of Thermodynamics. Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875) was educated at Oxford University, studied law and was admitted to the Bar. He soon changed tack, devoting his life to science and in particular the study of geology. It should be noted that he published the first two volumes of his Principles of Geology without having done any fieldwork, so not only was he ...
168. Notes (The Atlantis Myth) [Books]
... is called Bab-el-Mandeb, literally the `gate of tears'. It is said to have received this peculiar name in commemoration of the mourning for the death of an immense number of people who were drowned there in a great convulsion of the Earth which separated Asia from Africa and caused the Red Sea to come into existence. Note 75. Lyell, the ultra-conservative Victorian geologist, suggested 35,000 years. Note 76. Anthropological remains of the Cro-Magnon type are also found in the Canary Islands, amongst many of the extinct Guanches'. Among the Berbers of Morocco similar types are still met with occasionally Note 77. This pictographic manuscript consists of a strip of maguey-paper, fourteen ...
169. An Unexplained Arctic Catastrophe [Journals] [SIS Review]
... . Hooker, J.D . 1881. Presidential Address' , Proc. Roy. Geogr. Soc. Lond., vol. 3, pp. 601-603. Kropotkin, P. 1900, Baron von Toll on New Siberia and the Circumpolar Tertiary Flora', Geogr. Jl., vol. xvi, pp. 95-99. Lyell, C. 1870, Elements of Geology, London, p. 215. Scharff, R.F ., 1899, The History of the European Fauna, London, vii+ 364pp.; see p. 163. Whiteley, D.G ., 1910, The Ivory Islands of the Arctic Ocean', Jl. ...
170. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... much space to Raup's views on the negative reaction by the scientific community. "Within geology and paleontology, according to Mr Raup, no piece of conventional wisdom is more strongly entrenched than the suspicion of catastrophism', of explanations that involve sudden and violent change." This Raup sees as a historical attitude, dating from the triumph of Lyell over Cuvier. Raup would like to see greater openness towards new ideas, "but all too often normal professional safeguards can have a paralysing effect, and progress depends on the presence of the indomitable maverick." Gordon Jonas, reporting this item to us, thinks this is the nearest they could get to a mention of Velikovsky! ...
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