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42 pages of results. 381. H. H. Hess and My Memoranda [Journals] [Pensee]
... of the earth. 4. An analysis of the magnetic inclination (dip) in the clay of the pottery of the Old and Middle Kingdoms in Egypt may disclose substantial shifts, actually reversals of the magnetic field of the earth; similar tests could also be performed on various neolithic pottery. 5. An investigation of the direction of the spirals of fossil snail shells and of the windings of fossil vines which are now usually clockwise in one hemisphere and counter clockwise in the other, may reveal, with the help of radiocarbon analysis, the time of changes or reversals in the direction of the rotation of the earth. 6. Measurement of the gravitational constant within a Faraday cage ...
382. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... how Venus could have originated by ejection from Jupiter only a few thousand years ago, in contrast to the belief of Prof Roy that Venus is many millions of years old, I am now inclined to agree with the conventional view. I still think there is convincing evidence that a cosmic body was ejected as a charged jet from Jupiter, spiralling in and crossing the orbits of Mars and Earth until it attained a stable orbit near or intersecting that of Venus as an electrically neutral body, or with a small charge. Suppose this cosmic body had been much smaller than a planet, say only 1200km diameter, a tenth that of Venus. Its mass would be about 1/ ...
383. Victory of The Sun [Books] [de Grazia books]
... time to explain the world. High energy forces make out of natural history a set of exponential curves resembling very old human theories that universal history runs in cycles. The set of curves represent, of course, the approach, climax and recession of revolutionizing events. It is possible that, chained together through time, the curves exhibit a spiralling or helical history; that is, natural history may have a direction, rather than simply repeating itself. By direction is meant that the periods of the history, besides their obvious unique and eccentric qualities, may be stages of a process with an end. What is left now, as an inheritance, of a cosmic system, ...
384. Chaos and Creation [Books] [de Grazia books]
... of Jupiter and lightning par excellence, to the point where they could be mistaken for Yahwah-sect descendants of Noah [64]. Planet Mars, already long known to mankind as a moving star, was precipitated onto its disastrous course lasting nearly a century ( -776 B.C . to -687 B.C .) when proto-planet Venus spiralled near to it [65]. Spectacular celestial events were observed from Earth. The unsettled body invaded the orbit of Earth, and repeatedly, roughly at fifteen years intervals, it approached Earth closely, causing new disasters. The highly developed Etruscan and rude Latin civilizations were devastated. Although Rome was born amidst the turmoil (753 B ...
385. Earth Parturition and Moon Birth [Books] [de Grazia books]
... the waist and barefooted to avoid collecting threads and lint. Figure 23. The Mesoamerican Moon Goddess Tlazolteotl. Talzolteotl, the Moon Goddess with Spindles in Her Hair. Source: Codex Boriga, 55; Coe, 16. Among the designs often associated with the very many paintings and sculptures of the Moon Goddess were whirls, whorls, and spirals. Sometimes she carried a mirror as a symbol of the reflections of the Moon; it substituted for the spindle. On her head she wore at times a cap resembling a cone and distaff of raw wool. The headgear is called the "polos," a word we have come to identify with the Boreal pole, of Uranian ...
386. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... a South African archaeologist, after studying Bushman art, suggests that these patterns are images seen' by shamans in a state of hallucination. He suggests that such art is neither decorative nor narrative but dominated by shamanism. Research in neuropsychology shows that the hallucinogenic phenomena experienced by people in trance states take very similar forms, such as dots, spirals, zigzags. In the deepest trance states a shaman feels he is temporarily visiting another world with a mixture of geometric and iconograhic forms. The first representational images are therefore seen not as realistic depictions so much as a fixing of images seen in another world. Architectural mystery Houston Chronicle 8.9 .90 Gerald Moorhead, of the ...
387. Did Worlds Collide [Journals] [Pensee]
... in the resonance zones are known to be orbitally unstable, one must concede that the solar system lacks topological stability. The flow can be visualized completely in the planar case N = 2, where the tori are 2-dimensional and the reduced state space is 3-dimensional. Here each torus divides the space into an inner and an outer region. Streamlines spiraling away from an orbitally unstable, closed [or topologically circular, i.e ., periodic] streamline are trapped between two adjacent nested tori and cannot get very far away. Hence the planar 2-body problem is orbitally stable. However, for N>=3 the situation is dramatically different. To visualize it by analogy, draw ...
388. The Catastrophic Finale of the Middle Bronze Age [Books] [de Grazia books]
... categories in the hundreds, the division by metals is poor on five counts: it is parochial; misleading; presumptuous; non-anthropological; and undynamic. Actually various ancient classifications offered by writers such as Hesiod and Ovid are at least as useful. They furthermore introduce cycles of creation and destruction with each age, and sometimes a long linear or spiral development running through the cycles (that is, progress). Nor do I see any superiority in the optimistic, linear, evolutionary schemes of Fraser, Morgan, Engels, Spencer, and the others who perceived a rational technological sequence moving from hominid to contemporary mankind. In dividing historical time, cultural change is the most logical concept ...
389. Appendices (The Book of Revelation is History) [Books]
... ', and disappeared. They `reigned' with much oppression'; the myth also tells, with unveiled surprise, that the last `head' and the remaining few `wings' caused more `uproar' than their predecessors, though they `reigned' only for a very short time: for in the meantime satellitic wreckage had spiralled down to the earth, with great meteorological consequences, and the waning gravitational powers of the dying companion had caused seismic, volcanic, and diluvial catastrophes. The rage of the cataclysm reached its climax when `the whole body of the eagle was burnt' (xii. 1-3). After this, as the myth fitly tells ( ...
390. The Creation of the Earth -- the Second Account [Books]
... and small'. The Sac and Fox Indians say that the raindrops at the time of which their deluge myth tells were of the size of wigwams. The waterfall-like downpour is mentioned in many myths. What had been the cause of this deluge from above? According to Hoerbiger's Cosmologic Theory the fragments of the ice-coat of the former satellite had spiralled into the terrestrial atmosphere where the friction they experienced made them to dissolve into smaller particles, part of which fell as torrential rain and part as terrible hail. Mythologically the explanation was rather different. The Jews, and many other peoples believed that above the Earth there was a vault-like, or lid-like, crystalline structure which although it was ...
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