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221 pages of results. 251. Catastrophism and Uniformity: A Probe into the Origins of the 1832 Gestalt Shift in Geology [Books]
... was to carry the attack into the Tory camp in his Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, the purpose of which was to argue that wealthy Tory amateurs had a stranglehold on science policy and were discriminating against socially less well positioned scientists, who were more deserving of support. Charles Lyell (1797-1875), to whom he was writing, had just published the second volume of his Principles of Geology (Volume 1, 1830; Volume 11, 1832; and Volume 111, 1833), a work written in support of political liberalism although ostensibly it was an objective work in science free from any political implications. In his letter of May 3rd to Lyell, Babbage ...
252. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... From: SIS Workshop Vol 4 No 1 (Jul 1981) Home | Issue Contents Letters The Great Red Spot on Jupiter Dear Sir, Dr Garry Hunt, in "The Weather on Jupiter" (NEW SCIENTIST 21 May) writes: "Without doubt, the Great Red Spot and the other large features are meteorological in origin .. ." and starts his next sentence with "Certainly". The use of such positive terms is not a good scientific attitude, especially as he goes on to say that the nature and origin of the red material of the "spot" is still a mystery. The amount of this material is far greater than the volume of ...
253. KA [Books]
... Tages, sprang up out of a ploughed field. Although a child, he had the wisdom of an old man [1 ]. The fulguriator at Rome specialised in the study of thunderbolts. There are frequent references to lightning and earthquakes in classical literature. Cicero, 1st century B.C ., in his work on divination, writes that earthquakes have often given warning of disaster, and that the Etruscans have interpreted them [2 ]. Some of Rome's most important institutions were Etruscan in origin. The general opinion in the ancient world was that Etruscans had come to Italy from the east. Cicero mentions the Lydian soothsayer of Etruscan race, "Lydius haruspex Tyrrhenae gentis ...
254. The Founding of Rome [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... a period of over 400 years of accepted chronology around the Mediterranean world did not exist and should be stricken from the record. These are the so-called Dark Ages of Greece, which were placed in the historical record in the first place to correspond with four hundred years of Egyptian chronology that were also non-existent. "The Aegean prehistorians," writes J. Cadogan, "have no choice but to adapt themselves to the Egyptologists."(2 ) This may still seem to be true to most ancient historians, but a generation ago Immanuel Velikovsky, in his Ages in Chaos, knocked out the Egyptian centuries at issue and, following his cues respecting the Greek Dark Ages, ...
255. Worlds In Collision And Recent Finds In Archaeology. Ch.17 Supplement (Earth In Upheaval) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Earth in Upheaval]
... , and the enigmatic hiatus of six hundred years proves not to be real. I expect new evidence from the Minoan scripts and the so called Hittite pictographs. Texts in the Minoan (Linear B) script were found years ago on Crete and in Mycenae and in several other places on the Greek mainland. I believe that when the Minoan writings unearthed in Mycenae are deciphered they will be found to be Greek. I also claim that these texts are of a later date than generally believed. "No Dark Age' of six centuries' duration intervened in Greece between the Mycenaean age and the Ionian age of the seventh century."2 Before long new evidence will come from ...
256. Jupiter's Bands and Saturn's Rings [Books] [de Grazia books]
... found the body of the planet Jupiter to be surrounded by several substances resembling belts or bands, and likewise that there is the faint resemblance of a belt about the planet Saturn"[3 ]. To have been capable of this assertion, Taylor would have had to educe declarations concerning the two systems of divine bonds from the highly abstract writings of Proclus and to realize the recency of telescopic identification of the two systems. Actually, Galileo and his associates had sighted the rings of Saturn about 1608; however, he mistakenly believed them to be two smaller bodies of a triple-bodied Saturn [4 ]. Working with a superior telescope, Christian Huygens had identified the "ring" ...
257. The AAAS Affair: from Twenty Years After [Books]
... to satisfy our unconscious needs, even if the satisfaction of those needs would directly lead to the extinction of the human race. Velikovsky took very seriously this idea that the human species was blindly self-destructive- and was now in possession of the technological means of self-destruction. That is why Velikovsky thought it so urgent and necessary that he proceed with the writing and publication of Mankind in Amnesia, even though this might only aggravate the resistance that was already so widespread. PSYCHOANALYTIC RESISTANCE AND THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR As a Freudian, Velikovsky saw psychoanalytic resistance as the mechanism underlying the Velikovsky Affair. People lash out at anyone who would confront them with forgotten and buried memories of the repeated catastrophes that were ...
258. Some Preliminary Remarks About Ice Cores [Journals] [Kronos]
... some of the more significant and substantive issues that are raised by ice core studies. * * * Many of the words that Ellenberger uses in his "Ice Cores" section- and consequently many of the lines of reasoning that he uses- are not his own. Let us review several examples of this. On page 97, Ellenberger writes as follows: "On most of the Greenland ice sheet the annual ice accumulation is such that annual layers can be counted many thousands of years backward in time, the only limitation being the obliteration of the annual layers near the bottom by diffusion of the water molecules in the solid ice." Most of this sentence seems to have ...
259. A REVISED CHRONOLOGY FOR THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST [Journals] [SIS Review]
... in references to Egypt - Abraham's visit and his dealings with Pharaoh, the descent into Egypt under Joseph, the sojourn and enslavement of the Hebrews, the Exodus, the friendly relations with Egypt established under Solomon, the invasions of Shishak and Zerah and the other references to Egypt and its Pharaohs in the Books of Kings and Chronicles and the writings of the prophets. Contacts between the two peoples are often described in great detail in the Bible, and the frequency of their mention is only to be expected from such close neighbours as Egypt and Palestine. When one turns to the Egyptian record the picture is similar - there are numerous references to "Asiatic" campaigns of various Pharaohs ...
260. The Holy Land [Books]
... The translators render Ekur as "earth." (2 ) So also did Chinese astronomy deem Saturn the planet of the "earth," (3 ) while the Phoenician Saturn is said to have dwelt "in the centre of the earth." The Egyptian "earth god" is Seb (or Geb). That is, writes Budge, "the earth formed his body and was called the house of Seb. (4 )'" But if Seb's body was the earth, why did the Greek historian Plutarch translate Seb as Kronos (Saturn)? (5 ) What connection of the planet Saturn and the "earth" might have justified this identity? ...
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