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119 pages of results. 571. The Velikovsky Affair [Books] [de Grazia books]
... it are in Plato and Aristotle, but it is presented in detail by later commentators. It would seem that Kugler refrained from using the term comet because he was puzzled by the role of Venus and because the texts mention a globular body similar in apparent size and brightness to the sun. He used the term sun-like meteor' which sounds strange except to those who are familiar with ancient terminology. Aristotle, in order to defend the immutability of the heavens, distinguishes astronomy from meteorology and defines the latter as the study of the appearance in the sky of burning flames and of shooting stars and of what some call torches and horns' (Meteor. I 341 B). ...
572. Comparing Magnetic Fields: Neptune and Uranus [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... in the same direction, the magnetic field will be arranged so that the magnetic poles and geographic poles will tend to closely coincide. However, when Voyager 2 encountered Uranus, this entire analysis fell to pieces. Patrick Moore explains: At a distance of 450,000 kilometers [from Uranus], Voyager entered the magnetosphere, revealing a strange magnetic dipole field with [its magnetic] axis tilted by almost [60 ] to the [geographic] rotational axis of the planet.... No doubt the fact that Uranus' magnetic axis is so different from the rotational axis is linked with the unique axial inclination [Uranus is lying on its side rotationally, compared to ...
573. The Velikovsky Affair [Books] [de Grazia books]
... moreover serve to bind to the group unsuspecting sympathizers in a common cause of science. This is conjectural, yet it would be improper to eliminate it entirely from consideration, even at the cost of arousing hostility in readers who, until this page, might have been in full sympathy with our presentation. To illustrate further, there occurred a strange incident that can perhaps be best understood as a network problem. Shapley was among a group of progressives and more extreme left-wingers who, when the New York newspaper PM failed, backed its successor, Compass. On February 19, 1950, it reprinted the original Harper's article on Velikovsky's book, the very article which, appearing before book ...
574. Conclusion (Carl Sagan & Immanuel Velikovsky) [Books]
... can pull all the other gods and the Earth with his chain, being stronger than all of them together; and that an old commentary (by Eustathius, a Byzantine scholar) states that this means the planet Jupiter is stronger in its pull than all the other planets combined, the Earth included. Einstein admitted that it was really very strange that the ancients should have known this. "When, after three quarters of an hour during which we were served tea, we rose to go. Einstein kept us, saying, We have only started. ' In order not to appear a bore or a fanatic of one idea, I repeatedly changed the theme of conversation as ...
575. Interviewing Immanuel Velikovsky: An Introduction [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... know! They just build all kinds of opposition to discoveries or to an interpretation of the facts that could lead to understanding that mankind is a descendant of victims of traumatic experience and that they, themselves, were also victims and descendants of victims of traumatic experience. So the human race actually evolved in traumatic experiences and, therefore, the strangeness of so many things that are happening now on the political scene, (1976-1977) specially in the international scene, need to be understood from this point of view. Man is unconsciously looking for one of two escapes Sigmund Freud showed, either to forget or to recreate by means of repetition. And now, with atomic weapons in ...
576. A Conversation with Barry Fell [Journals] [Horus]
... , Fell presents an abundance of archaeological and linguistic evidence that points to a Phoenician presence in North America as early as the 8th to 6th century B.C .] Editor: To what do you attribute the general academic resistance to this kind of evidence and the implications of your work? Dr. Fell: Well I find it very strange myself. If I were in a situation as a younger scientist confronted with a discovery that was obviously making some of my earlier work wrong, my first defensive reaction would be first of all to check whether it convinced me or not; and as soon as I was convinced, immediately get out a paper as fast as possible acknowledging ...
577. Child of Saturn (Part VI) [Journals] [Kronos]
... lux of Genesis 1:3 . It was the Lux Divina by which the Romans described, not Saturn, but Venus.(13) - Why Venus? 29. Mater Dei One can picture our aboriginal ancestors, standing or squatting outside their primitive shelters, staring wide-eyed at this newly created glory and wondering what it was. The strange resemblance it bore to their own human form must have early impressed itself on those primigenous minds. And for that reason, primarily, the Saturnian configuration was easily anthropomorphized. In fact, the anthropomorphism of celestial bodies owes its origin, through extension, to this primordial human-like resemblance of Saturn. But that, in itself, did not ...
578. Ancient Myths And Legends Of The African Bantu People [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... great mother goddess Ma. At the command of the Eternal Spirit, Unkulunkulu,(1 ) she created herself in human form, and then she created the stars, the sun, and the Earth (the moon came later, by accident). Although she was immortal, the Goddess Ma, Ninavanhu-Ma(2 ) was cursed with strange desires and feelings, she was lonely- and she wept bitterly. So long and loud did she weep that the very stars trembled and fell from the sky, and her tears formed a great lake at her feet, and then spread across the land in all directions, forming the murmuring streams and mighty rivers we see today. ...
579. Answers To Further Critics [Journals] [Kronos]
... been on or close to its present orbit. It would be fascinating to have detailed quantitative data on the cometary movements of Venus some thirty-five or more centuries ago, but the sequential observations that have in fact survived seem to be from the early eighth century, a time when the orbit of Venus was no longer cometary at all. The strangeness of these eighth-century observations of Venus seems to be mainly due to their having been made from an Earth that was on a radically different orbit from the present orbit of Earth. If we were rewriting the "Analysis" paper today, we would have to be more careful about how this sort of subject was handled. The third point ...
580. Evidence for the Extreme Youth of Venus [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Venus has a retrograde axial rotation period of 243 days. It is assumed, because it so different to the Earth's rotation rate, that it must have been similar at some time in the past and then drastically modified as a result of a very large collision. There is no generally accepted theory to explain planetary rotation or axial tilt. Strangely, Venus always presents the same hemisphere to the Earth at times of inferior conjunction. 3. Isotopic anomalies Three isotopes of argon are considered important in investigations of planetary atmospheres. 40Ar is produced by the decay of radioactive potassium (40K) in the planet's rocks and is outgassed into the atmosphere over time. Venus has only of the ...
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