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119 pages of results. 491. Velikovsky And The Media [Journals] [Pensee]
... with Velikovsky appeared in the January, 1973, Analog magazine. Editor Ben Bova, while remarking on scientists' unfortunate responses to "outsiders," passed off the substance of Velikovsky's work with wonderful ease: "Velikovsky's ideas hold about as much water as a well-worn cheese-cloth. They're the result of trying to find one sweeping explanation for every strange and wonderful event that confronts us." And further: "Is it reasonable to expect all this to happen so that the errant planet [Venus) can show up on cue for most of the miracles of Exodus?" Well, after all, a single, unified theory explaining many different things is preferable to numerous separate theories ...
492. Snapshots of the Gods? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... fig. 12), a few swastikas appear. In the ceiling at Knossos they alternate with the spatter. Were swastikas spinning electrical discharges? If my speculation is valid, rapid breakdowns of plasmic magnetic fields would induce rapid movements back and forth in magnetised bodies and their discharges. Did such changes create cartoon-like bodies in the sky, whose strange migrations and fluxes were interpreted as actions of the gods? Did such changes alter the bodies themselves, thereby accounting for the profusion of shape-shifting' gods in Antiquity? 4. Beauty is in The Eye of the Beholder Fig. 18 is a late Greek portrait of Helen of Troy - not bad, eh? However, some Greek ...
493. USGS versus Fringe [Journals] [Catastrophist Geology]
... others. Some years from now a News Release will be issued, stating that dowsing is worthy of additional scientific investigation. It will be followed by a new Water Supply Paper, with an extensive bibliography covering also the period since 1917, and recommending the use of public funds for further tests. References Corliss W.R ., 1974 Strange Phenomena, Vols. G-1, G-2. Custom Copy Center, Baltimore. Ellis A.J ., 1917: The Diving Rod - a history of water witching. USGS Water Supply Paper 416. Fort Ch., 1919-1931i The Book of the Damned, Lol, Wild Talents; New Lands; reprinted in 1941: The Books ...
494. The el-Amarna Letters (Continued) (Ages in Chaos) [Velikovsky]
... ." In the sixties of the last century Arabs of Dhiban in Trans-Jordan, the ancient Dibon, showed a traveler a black basalt stele on which were cut ancient Hebrew characters. After the stone had been sold to a museum the Arabs regretted the transaction. They began to think that a treasure was hidden inside the stone and that the strange writing told of it, and so they decided to open the stone. Furthermore, they reasoned that by breaking it up they would have more objects for sale. And if the stone possessed a charm they had to destroy it first. They heated it in fire and poured cold water over it, and it broke into many pieces ...
495. Habiru and Hebrew [Journals] [SIS Review]
... certainty about the language (NW Semitic, Hurrian, etc.) or the verbal root from which the sociopolitical technical term was originally drawn' [emphases added] [21]. Until there is agreement on a philological basis for the identification of these various terms as cognates, the flawed phonetic/grammatical match seems to preclude such a strangely unfounded consensus' and even if identity of the terms in the Early Monarchy period were granted, and coupled necessarily with verbatim accounts of Philistine remarks, we would be left with the insurmountable problem of transforming a term of abuse into the favoured gentilic during the continuous culture of the Hebrews under the Davidic Dynasty. Therefore I cannot accept that ...
496. Stephen Jay Gould and Immanuel Velikovsky [Books]
... the case of sunspots to enlighten us on old sources. "It seems that late in the 19th century, the German solar astronomer Gustav Friedrich Wilhelm Sporer collected records of old sunspot sightings. He was startled to discover that for about 70 years, beginning around 1645, sunspot sightings were great rarities. Apparently the Sun was, for this strange interlude, virtually spotless . . . . "A Victorian astronomer, E. Walter Maunder, who studied sunspots from the Royal Greenwich Observatory in England, double-checked the historical record and saw that Sporer was right . . . . In the 1600's they had been reluctant to accept a blemished Sun; when they finally had to, they ...
497. The Cause Of The Ice Ages. Ch.8 Poles Displaced (Earth In Upheaval) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Earth in Upheaval]
... of ice ages, whether resorting to astronomical, geological, or atmospheric causes, must also explain why ice ages did not occur in northeastern Siberia, the coldest place on earth, but did occur in temperate latitudes, and in a much more remote past in India, Madagascar, and equatorial Brazil. None of the theories mentioned explains these strange facts. Hypotheses concerning warmer and colder areas in space, or the variability of the sun as a source of energy, are especially inadequate to account for the geographical distribution of the ice cover. Thus the concept of ice ages, which is established in science as one of its most definite facts, serving also as a foundation for ...
498. The World-Wide Losses Of Land (The Atlantis Myth) [Books]
... Pacific hemisphere. In Hawaii there are many remains of a former civilization, whose sites prove that they were built by refugees from submergence, or at least by people who were afraid of the waters and wanted.to take measures to counteract the danger.88 In the eastern Pacific, Easter Island is crowded with cultural relics which are so strange that the only explanation is that they had a `magical' or `religious' purpose: the protection of the land from the encroaching sea. The present small, waterless, grass-covered, barren island could never have supported the great population which we are forced to conclude was necessary for the creation of these specialized cultural remains. The ...
499. Chapter23_end
... of the Judeo-Christian tradition, has lost it-so utterly that in no Western language is there a word to express it. The notions of limit, of measure, of commensurability, which guided the thought of sages have survived only in Greek science and in the catharsis of tragedy. This seemed to draw the boundary of understanding. It is a strange truth, notes Simone Weil, that men today should be geometers only with respect to matter. But Plato's famous lost lecture on the Good is known to have been based on geometrical demonstration. It had been so from the beginning in Greece. Not only Anaximander's ethical statics of the cosmos, but the whole 331 Pythagorean theory had been ...
500. On Number As Artifact: Part 2: Development [Journals] [Horus]
... balanced they must have seemed in the prehistoric mind. The tones of music are 12, and they bulge the octaves at the seams. The months of the year also are 12, but instead of crowding the year they fall short. Much of the efficacy of duodecimal mathematics hinged, in the archaic view, upon a resolution of this strange double paradox. And it was neo-Pythagorean elements, ultimately, who sounded the death-knell by championing decimal methods of reckoning throughout Europe. Ten-base and decimal metrication were on the threshold of sweeping that planet. The only drawback in this development has been that modern man is now almost totally oblivious of his cultural roots. If the veil is to ...
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