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221 pages of results. 491. A Chronology for the Middle Kingdom and Israel's Egyptian Bondage [Journals] [SIS Review]
... ] It is a necessary corollary of the revised chronology that the deductions usually made from the Sothic material should be abandoned. Both VELIKOVSKY and D. A. COURVILLE have produced cogent criticisms of the usual understanding of the Sothic calendar [3 ]. R. D. LONG has also exposed significant weaknesses in assumptions behind the accepted dates. Writing of the heliacal rising recorded on the Illahûn Papyrus, Long says: "With so much history, not only Egyptian but the events of other civilisations dependent on this heliacal appearance of Sirius [Sothis], one would expect, or at least hope for, a firmly and thoroughly established set of data. Unfortunately, this is not ...
492. Legends and Miracles [Books] [de Grazia books]
... But then, far back, in the time of Exodus, the Egyptian Ipuwer had been lamenting: "Indeed, hair (has fallen out) for everybody, and the man of rank can no longer be distinguished from him who is nobody." The upper classes had worn their hair long. A Swedish commentator, Ragnar Forshufvud, writes that "a dose of 300-400 rem will give temporary epilation while 700 rem will give permanent epilation." (1 rem = the radiation dose of 1 Roentgen of X or Y radiation.) If the whole body is subject to a single dosage of 450 rem, there is only a 50% chance of survival, which may ...
493. Early Historic Man -- Catastrophism and Calendars [Articles]
... eclipses- as you know, this needs the intervention of higher mathematics. So in one direction they were unable to measure the exact length of the year and on the other hand they were more acquainted than many people nowadays with higher mathematics and astronomy. Man, in my opinion, could perfectly- in prehistoric times when there was no writing even, and in early historic times when writing begins- he was perfectly able to measure the exact length of the solar year. How could that be, though? There are many ways of doing it, the ways we have to look for are simple ways, almost natural ways which do not involve mathematical knowledge, because at ...
... undoubtedly Velikovsky's argument. Sagan argues,"The question of originality is important because of circumstances-for example, the high surface temperature of Venus-which are said to have been predicted by Velikovsky at a time when everyone else was imagining something very different. As we shall see, this is not quite the case."10 Sagan states, "Velikovsky writes in the 1965 preface that his claim of a high surface temperature [for Venus] was in total disagreement with what was known in 1946. ' This turns out to be not quite the case. The dominant figure of Rupert Wildt...looms over the astronomical side of Velikovsky's hypothesis. Wildt, who unlike Velikovsky, understood ...
495. The Spiral and Birth [Books]
... view of "the learned ecclesiastical historian Mgr. Duchesne", who has pointed out that according to an ancient belief "the world began and the sun and moon were created at the spring equinox". A sect of the Montanists dated the equinox on the twenty-fourth of March.1 Budge,2 dealing with the Egyptian festivals at Henen-su writes in regard to the birth of the new year: Other festivals were those of Bast, which were celebrated in the spring of the Egyptian year and those of the "hanging out of the heavens ", i.e ., the supposed reconstituting of the heavens each year in the spring. The god Khnemu, as of the ...
496. Heretics, Dogmatists and Science's Reception of New Ideas [Journals] [Kronos]
... regularly of the sizable incompleteness of our understanding . . . of nature and the world around us. ''(14) At least one astronomer of no mean repute is consciously aware of the thrust of Hackerman's admonition. In a book review of P. S. Wesson's Cosmology and Geophysics for Nature, T. C. Van Flandern writes: "Moreover I was pleased to see explicit mention of the assumption underlying this entire discussion [of gravitation and the expansion of the Earth], that there may be as yet undiscovered laws of physics. This has always seemed to me an obvious point as long as our understanding of the true nature of phenomena such as gravitation is ...
497. Talk by Bob Porter on Middle Assyrian History [Journals] [SIS Review]
... that have stylistic characteristics acknowledged by us as literary, such as verse, metre, word-play, simile and metaphor. Such texts are common throughout Mesopotamian history in, the Sumerian and Akkadian languages, and have been used extensively as historical sources. The legitimacy of their use as such is a thorny matter'. (Cuneiform Texts and the Writing of History, 1999 p. 28). A few pages further on he writes, The use of literature, both about humans and gods, is thus a tricky affair for the Mesopotamian historian. Although I am not averse to the idea that historical events inspired certain literary compositions or their details, I doubt very much that we ...
498. Ice Cores of Greenland [Books] [de Grazia books]
... similar expression of great effective force. Each must avoid the thrust of the other, even if it is blindly delivered in the course of an "empirical study" whose deadliness to the opposition was not originally intended. Such would be the study of ice cores of Greenland and Antarctica. Their purpose is multiform; a Danish group of glaciologists writes: "Ice cores have become an important tool in geophysics and atmospheric chemistry. Langway (1967) first perceived the great and many-sided aspects of extending physical and chemical analyses of snow and ice to what Crary (1970) calls: the thin dimension' of glaciers, thereby adding time to the parameters considered. In a more recent ...
499. Velikovsky at Harvard [Journals] [Pensee]
... rarely if ever before witnessed. "Nonsense and Rubbish" It was at Harvard that Dr. Harlow Shapley, then director of the observatory, branded Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision as so much "nonsense and rubbish" --without bothering to read the book. And it was Shapley who prevailed upon his Harvard colleague, Dr. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, to write "the first detailed answer to Dr. Velikovsky's theory" --before she had read the book. This "answer," at first circulated widely under a Harvard letterhead, then appeared in the popular press as the opinion of an authority on astronomy and history, and was later reported in Shapley's Science News Letter. It was at Harvard ...
... as validations of Velikovsky's ideas were addressed by his critics; was he perhaps indisputably right in those instances? History of the Near and Middle East Velikovsky: "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.., are deciphered they will be found to be Greek. I also claim that these texts are of a later date than generally believed.. ." [431]. "This lecture [excerpt above] was delivered on October 14, 1953. In November of the same year the first announcement of the decipherment . ...
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