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... . 428. No. 445 is interesting because its lower end also is engraved. The use of the wheel as an engraving tool began in this period. STAMP SEALS Stamp seals reappear about 700 B.C . It has often been said that stamp seals became common in the Assyrian and later periods because clay was no longer the general writing material. But that stamp seals were widely used when clay was still a common writing material is shown by many impressions on "Cappadocian," Assyrian, Persian, and Seleucid tablets. One is tempted to assume that the introduction of stamp seals went hand-in-hand with a final attempt by the Assyrians to free themselves culturally, as well as ...
422. Editorial Statement . . . [Journals] [Kronos]
... From: Kronos Vol. VI No. 4 (Summer 1981) Home | Issue Contents Editorial Statement . . .L. M. Greenberg KRONOS: THE FIRST SIX YEARS With this issue KRONOS marks the close of its sixth volume. As of this writing, no other publication emphasizing the work of Immanuel Velikovsky has ever come so far. Thanks to the generosity of its subscribers and the time and effort- freely given- by its staff, the journal is stronger today than at any time in its history. During the past year, KRONOS successfully established the KRONOS Endowment Fund. Supported only by donations, the KEF has underwritten- in whole or in part- ...
423. Chapter I: The Review [The Age of Velikovsky] [Books]
... fly off the earth at 900 m!/hr. A more normal situation of a car going from 60 to 0 in thirty seconds would give a deceleration rate approximately equivalent to the earth stopping in 8.7 minutes. This would not have led to an early invention of seat belts. Although one may well question the justification of writing a detailed critique of an unread book, it is understandable that Payne-Gaposchkin would misquote Worlds in Collision since she had not read it. Even a few casual mistakes in analysing a book that has been read are also understandable, but Payne-Gaposchkin's continued misrepresentation of the book later, after she claimed to have read it can be understood only in ...
424. A Revised Astronomical Chronology for Egypt [Articles]
... pass this knowledge across. It's some sort of argument, anyway. But I have a second argument which to my mind is stronger. Back in 522 BC, there was an eclipse of the Moon in Babylon. We know this from two sources, we know it from a tablet from Babylon, and we also know it from the writings of Claudius Ptolemy, and whereas in the Babylonian tablet it says there was an eclipse on 14th Duzu, and describes how this eclipse came to the north and covered up the Moon, in the Almagest Ptolemy describes what is pretty clearly the same eclipse, again coming from the north etc.- well, it is the same eclipse ...
425. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... From: SIS C & C Review 2004:1 Incorporating Workshop 2004:2 (May 2004) Home | Issue Contents Monitor INSIDE SCIENCE Quote: You could write the history of science in the last 50 years in terms of papers rejected by Science or Nature'. – Paul Lauterbur, winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize for medicine. More Support for Homeopathy (New Scientist, 14.1 .03. p. 22) Homeopathy is ridiculed by most scientists because they cannot explain it and work supporting it was discredited' in 1988 by a farcical witch-hunt involving the ultra-orthodox journal Nature and a magician. Now, however, new work purports to show that the structure ...
426. The Electric Universe [Journals] [SIS Review]
... the relationship between quasars and galaxies and shown that the Hubble expansion of the universe is a fiction: there could never have been a Big Bang. After a lifetime of exemplary research, he relates evidence that the academic approach is failing in his field. His latest book, Seeing Red, is a war-cry against Big Bang cosmology. He writes in the preface, This, then, is the crisis for the reasonable members of the profession. With so many alternative, contradictory theories, many of them fitting the evidence very badly, abandoning the accepted theory is a frightening step into chaos. At this point, I believe we must look for salvation from the non-specialists, amateurs ...
427. Intimations of an Alien Sky [Journals] [Aeon]
... best, what I have presented is an oversimplified version of what might possibly- even probably- have occurred over a long period of time during which man would have learned to cope with his cosmically influenced environment as best he could. To be sure, the primitive societies of whom we spoke had not yet learned to commit their thoughts in writing so that a certain amount of conjecture must necessarily infuse any attempt to understand the impact which the planets at close quarters must have had on ancient man. Even so, the above scenario is considered a reasonably logical one and is partly based on what is known of the nature of those societies who continued to exist in their primitiveness down ...
428. The Ruined Face of a Classic Beauty [Books] [de Grazia books]
... after he is pierced by the spear of warlike Athena-Venus, and in so doing is herself struck. The poets and historians of ancient times may have known more than we do of disasters among the planets, "That the Moon was attacked and scarred by the comet Venus was known to the Greeks and described graphically by Nonnus." So writes Peter James, and we quote the fine passage from this historian of late ancient times, Nonnus: "Many a time he (Typhon) took a bull at rest from his rustic plowtree and shook him with a threatening hand, bellow as he would, then shot him against the Moon like another moon, and stayed her course ...
429. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... From: SIS Review Vol VI No 4 (1984) Home | Issue Contents Letters Come Again?In his "What's in a Name? - Venus The Newcomer'", Malcolm Lowery writes that "Dr Velikovsky frequently asserted (see for example his Retrospect' in SISR III:2 ) that the name of the planet [Venus] means newcomer' in Latin" (SISR V:2 , p. 46). I shall be most grateful to Mr Lowery for citing a few specific references in support of his claim that Dr Velikovsky frequently asserted any such thing. I looked in vain through "Retrospect" in SISR III:2 , as well as ...
430. Night of the Gods: The Stone [Books]
... parallel. M. Maspero says of the Egyptian sacred statues that "they were animated and, in addition to their bodies of stone metal or wood, had each a soul magically derived from the soul of the divinity they represented. They spoke moved acted, not metaphorically but actually."65 It is not always easy to decide, writes Dr. J. J. M de Groot,66 whether a Chinaman views the tablets of his ancestors (Ke-Shin-pai, family-soul-plank) as the dwelling of one of the three souls (compare the Egyptian ba, ka, and khu) which they give to every human being, or only as a visible souvenir of the dead. ...
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