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119 pages of results. 401. The Empire Strikes Back [Books] [de Grazia books]
... . Beyond Velikovsky In my opinion, Dean Bauer's manuscript should be published. It is the first generally adverse criticism of the work of Immanuel Velikovsky by a single author. The author has researched practically all available public sources. He is aware of and also adversely critical of the failings of many of the critics of Velikovsky. The book, strangely, is a likable book, which probably reflects the author's character more than the contents, which must prove annoying to a hundred people. The book will be controversial. There is no avoiding this. Feelings run high on the scientific and sociological aspects of Velikovsky's work. The most incisive criticism is bound to come from the supporters of ...
402. A Hemisphere Travels Southward, Part 2 Mars Ch.7 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... "Ipiutak, as the location of this ancient city is called by the present Eskimos, must have been built before the Christian era; two thousand years is thought a conservative estimate of its age. The excavations have yielded beautiful ivory carvings unlike any known Eskimo or other American Indian culture of the northern regions. Fashioned of logs, the strange tombs gave up skeletons which stared up at the excavators with artificial eyeballs carved of ivory and inlaid with jet. . . . Numerous delicately mad e and engraved implements, also found in the graves, resembled some of those produced in North China two or three thousand years ago; others resemble carvings of the Ainu peoples in northern Japan ...
403. The Water Clock, Part 2 Mars Ch.7 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... other words, should the polar axis change its astronomical position (direction), or should the polar axis change its geographical position with each pole shifting to another point, the length of the day and night (on any day except the equinoxes) would change, too. The water clock of Amenhotep III presented its investigator with a very strange time scale.1 Calculating the length of the day of the winter solstice, he found that the clock was constructed for a day of 11 hours 18 minutes, whereas the day of the solsti ce at 25 north latitude is 10 hours 26 minutes, a difference of fifty-two minutes. Similarly, the builder of the clock reckoned the ...
404. Cosmic Heretics [Books] [de Grazia books]
... . IN SEARCH OF TIMES PAST I did not obtain Alfred de Grazia's materials for this book without remonstrance and persiflage. I had thought that he would be pleased to have someone writing about his activities, especially someone like myself who could be counted upon for sympathy, and indeed intended to do so, in several volumes, no less. Strange, for Immanuel Velikovsky had responded to me in the same way! When I muttered something about reminiscence and the consolations of old age, he was primed for the retort, and I learned that Leonard Woolf had written his autobiography in his eighties, in five volumes, and Woolf was then old enough to be his father, and ...
405. Poles Uprooted, Part 2 Mars Ch.7 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... . "The difference between the two figures is too great to be attributable to refraction, which makes the sun still visible over the horizon after it has set. Thus, the greatest length of the day corresponds to latitude 34 57', and points to a place 2 ½ fa rther to the north; we stand therefore before a strange riddle [vor einem merkwürdigen Rätsel]. One tries to decide: either the tablets of System II do not originate from Babylon [though referring to Babylon], or this city actually was situated far [farth er] to the north, about 35 away from the equator."16 Since the computations of the astronomical tablets did ...
406. Horeb: The Mountain of God [Journals] [SIS Review]
... to have discovered much corroborative evidence in the environs of Jebel al Lawz.; but it is what they found at the summit that is the most interesting. The peak of the mountain was found to be blackened and scorched, as if by searing heat (this in fact is readily observable from the ground). Now this is most strange, since the mountain is not a volcano. At the summit Williams, a trained geologist, examined some of the rocks. These he deemed to be composed of obsidian (volcanic glass), or a material closely resembling obsidian. [1 ]. But, it is highly significant that, upon splitting the rocks open, the ...
407. The Worship Of Mars, Part 2 Mars Ch.2 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... , bringing sudden death without previous sickness," and "a rain of blood" and other calamities. Earthquakes convulsed the earth for a long period. Jewish tradition knows that "the first settlers of Rome found that the huts collapsed as soon as built."5 The death of Romulus occurred when, according to Plutarch, "suddenly strange and unaccountable disorders with incredible changes filled the air; the light of the sun failed, and night came down upon them, not with peace and quiet, but with awful peals of thunder and furious blasts," and amidst this storm Romulus disappeared.6 Ovid's description of the phenomena on the day of Romulus' death is this ...
408. Maimonides And Spinoza, The Exegetes, Part 2 Mars Ch.1 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... they are preserved in the Scriptures and in the Talmud. There was keener insight during the times prior to Maimonides, and to these more ancient interpreters he referred when he wrote: "The Universe [ever] since continues its regular course. This is my opinion; this should be our belief. Our Sages, however, said very strange things as regards miracles; they are found in Bereshith Rabba, and in Midrash Koheleth, namely, that the miracles are to some extent also natural." Baruch Spinoza proceeds from the premise that "Nature always observes laws and rules . . . although they may not all be known to us, and therefore she keeps a fixed ...
409. Stonehenge: Neolithic Man and the Cosmos, by John North [Journals] [SIS Review]
... have changed. The first stage of activity at the site he dates as early as 3250 BC, the second at around 2250 BC and a third at 1740 BC, dates that lie very close to significant dendrochronological anomalies, or narrow tree ring events. How much significance we should attach to these dates I am not sure, but if strange things were happening in the sky at these times one can understand why Neolithic and Bronze Age people found it imperative to look at the night sky. North even considered the viewing platform was in use in the 2nd century AD, or possibly a bit later, a date I find intriguing as dendrochronology has a small glitch in the mid ...
410. In the Beginning -- A Review [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... of the week. They are well known to represent the seven planets of ancient time- for example,the Moon represents Monday; Mars in French is Mardi, in Spanish, Martes; Jupiter (Jovis) in Spanish is represented by Jueves. But, more importantly, Velikovsky discusses the "Deification of the Planets." It seems extraordinarily strange that Saturn, which is difficult to see, should ever have been held as superior to either the Sun or the Moon. But the Sun was somehow subordinate to the planets. The same must also apply even more to Mercury, which is rarely seen, even by present observers. The question is, Why were these bodies not ...
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