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221 pages of results. 371. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... 19th Dynasty so late, Velikovsky ironically obscured the cause for these destructions which he himself had found." The reasons why he did so are also obscure. Granted that my off-hand remarks should carry little weight, surely some scholar who understood the catastrophe-culture-history interfaces must have read and disputed this part of the reconstruction of history. When Velikovsky was writing this book and the others were still appearing, was he by-passing his own catastrophic benchmarks to complete a descriptive history postulated on different grounds? When the Glasgow Chronology began to surface after his relevant book, (soon two books were in print), I heard recriminations and ducked out. I should have given more attention to this breakup ...
372. Zetetic Scholar Nos. 3 & 4 April 1979 [Articles]
... of work completed by Velikovsky and other scholars following in his path justifies placing the reconstructions under the spotlight of sympathetic scrutiny. Not only is a full legitimization justified, the tenets of scholarship make it imperative. Accordingly, even, if a scholar rejects a theory, it is supposed to be re-evaluated upon the presentation of fresh support. Velikovsky's writings have anticipated numerous facts authenticated later by discoveries. A few examples pertaining just to the solar system are these: the heat of Venus, radio noises from Jupiter, the magnetosphere of the Earth48 (which gives rise to the Van Allen belts), and recently, the steep thermal gradient of the moon's soil and the remanent magnetism of ...
373. Newton And Historical Science [Journals] [Kronos]
... breach of the historian's obligation to the records, Manuel advances an even more irresponsible concoction: it is, actually, but a new variation on the theory of Newton's insanity. In substance he suggests that Newton pursued historical research for cathartic purposes, in order to get rid of unwholesome thoughts. The purpose of Newton's long patience in research and writing in the matter of history and chronology would have been "a denial, a censorship, a repression". This kind of double talk is justified by the factually incorrect claim that Newton, though "psychically committed" to his historical books, "belittled" and "on occasion even mocked them". In other words, following ...
374. Still Facing Unfair Criticism (Vox Populi) [Journals] [Kronos]
... layers that were not found, because they had simply not yet been looked for, and certainly not yet reported. Ellenberger himself admits it (KRONOS X:I , p. 100), yet goes on to wishfully assume that such findings in the Dye-3 core will correlate with the Camp Century results; and he then goes on to write as if they already have been so correlated,(2 ) parading the length and "excellence" of the Dye-3 core, while claiming for it observations from the Camp Century core. Now let us check Ellenberger's reference concerning the Camp Century core, for which volcanic acid measurements had been reported. Curiously, we find that the Camp ...
375. Focus [Journals] [SIS Review]
... work to all of man's endeavours and the cost implicit in ignoring him. De Grazia outlined these implications in his Montreal address in January 1975 [8 ]. Stecchini's "The Inconstant Heavens" in The Velikovsky Affair is a veritable goldmine of insights into the history of science that go counter to the conventional wisdom. His account complements Bass' writings on the stability of the solar system [9 ], and concludes [10]: "And one could have predicted that the academic world would react to his thesis with a most unscholarly fury, even with personal vindictiveness: the record shows that astronomers hold to a peculiar dogma akin to the biblical story of Creation, that the ...
376. Solar Eclipses and the Historical Record [Journals] [Horus]
... Livy, Thucydides, Plutarch, etc., this scarcity seems odd. Yet, there are only seven separate accounts of solar eclipses that Newton finds acceptable. Here it may be illuminating to see how a couple of accounts prove troublesome. In describing the Persian march led by Xerxes toward Sardis in Book VII of his Persian Wars, Herodotus writes, "[ The Persians observed that] the sun quit his seat in the heavens and disappeared, day turning into night. "Later in Book IX, Herodotus cites the Greeks'observation of the same event. Historians have claimed that Herodotus' narrative must describe the retrocalculated solar eclipse of February. 17, 478 B.C . Nevertheless ...
... also, the king having, in effect, commanded that these should be paid for, when he said in his decree, that they should receive the forementioned sum for every slave. 4. Now when this had been done after so magnificent a manner, according to the king's inclinations, he gave order to Demetrius to give him in writing his sentiments concerning the transcribing of the Jewish books; for no part of the administration is done rashly by these kings, but all things are managed with great circumspection. On which account I have subjoined a copy of these epistles, and set down the multitude of the vessels sent as gifts [to Jerusalem], and the construction ...
378. Karl Popper and Evolutionary Theory (Vox Populi) [Journals] [Kronos]
... ON CHARLES DARWIN To the Editor of KRONOS: With reference to KRONOS VII:4 (p . 2), I would have found it not wholly inappropriate to mention, at least in a footnote, that already 60 years before the brilliant young philosopher [R . H. Brady] of 1979, Charles Fort- whose highly original writings provide such an extremely healthy counterweight to the dogmatic pronouncements of clowns within and without the establishment - in his Book of the Damned (p . 24 in my 1957 edition [p . 40 in the 1972 Ace edition]), unmasked Darwinism in the same way: ". .. ., but Darwinism of course was never ...
379. Untitled [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... also 50 years since W.F . Libby first published his book Radiocarbon Dating, and a presentation on the role of C14 dating is also on our agenda. If you think you have a paper to contribute, please contact the assistant conference organiser, John Crowe, (email: john.crowe@btinternet.com), or write via the SIS at the address below left. Suitable papers sent before the end of November 2001 will be considered for inclusion. The SIS Autumn meeting will be held at 10:30am on Sat 13 Oct 2001 at University London Union, (Room 2A, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HY), and will feature talks by ...
380. Psychology and Ancient Astronomical Discovery [Journals] [Kronos]
... and civil structure may be found in prehistoric generations. A universal characteristic of ancient astral religions and priesthoods involved the "measurement of time by the movements of the heavenly bodies. . .; the very word measure, like the word month. . ., goes back apparently to a root denoting the moon."(15) MacKenzie writes similarly: An ancient name of the moon was Aa, Â, or Ai, which recalls the Egyptian Aâh or Ah. The Sumerian moon was Aku, the measurer, ' like Thoth of Egypt, who in his lunar character as a Fate measured out the lives of men and was a god of architects, mathematicians, and ...
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