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221 pages of results. 501. Jonathan Swift and the Moons of Mars [Journals] [Kronos]
... rotates. To decide this point I watched this moon throughout the nights of August 20 and 21, and saw that there was in fact but one inner moon, which made its revolution around the primary in less than one-third the time of the primary's revolution, a case unique in our solar system."(4 ) Martin Gardner, writing in 1957, stated: "[ Phobos] is the only known body in the universe that revolves around a central body faster than the central body rotates, yet this fact is included in Swift's brief description! " (5 ) Ever since Hall's discovery, Swift has been given the additional appellation of "wizard" by some, ...
... is like the cranks Donnelly, Voliva, Hoerbiger, Hubbard, etc. [68], when one can also read that "a thin, but diffuse line . . . distinguishes Velikovsky from . . . Donnelly . . . Horbiger" and others [166], and that "the implication that Velikovsky's scholarship is comparable to the writings of men such as Voliva and Hubbard is ludicrous" [ 1 o]. We are familiar — in principle at least — with the fact that one man's sense is another's nonsense. If we just accept the opinion of one who labels cranks, we may as easily be non-sensible as sensible. Boring [34] reminds us that ...
503. The Cabots, the Lowells, and the Temperature of Venus [Journals] [Kronos]
... , it is important to remember that it is the fashionable scientific community which is meant. Most scientists live outside of that community and are tolerated as long as they conform. It is quite apparent that the real hostility toward Velikovsky has arisen not from most scientists, but from those who imagine themselves the center of the academic circus. To write as though "THE scientific community" has, in monolithic fury, rejected Velikovsky is to exaggerate shamelessly. What many scientists find deceitful in this Cornell publication is the pretense that scientific referees and critics are fair and objective, that the only people they attack are either "heretics" without foundation, or phonies without qualifications. As a ...
504. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... From: SIS Chronology & Catastrophism Review 1996:1 Home | Issue Contents Letters Comets or configuration?I have been following Phillip Clapham's recent writings about British myths with great interest. I note that he is tending to explain most of the symbols and events in terms of comets and associated meteor streams, following the ideas of Clube and Napier. Whilst many of these images, for instance horses with flying manes, flashing spears, birds with long tails, rushing winds and associated screaming noise, will indeed fit a cometary scenario, I feel that there are other images which are more easily explained by the Polar Configuration theory of Talbott, Cardona and Cochrane. Black goddesses could ...
505. Reviews [Journals] [SIS Review]
... and Thompson are said to be authors and researchers' of the history of science, based at an Institute dedicated to the advanced study of the nature and origin of life in light of ancient India's Vedic literature'. Their lack of formal scientific credentials (other than Thompson's PhD in mathematics) should not be held against them, provided their writings stand up to scrutiny. On the evidence of Forbidden Archeology and The Hidden History of the Human Race, they have done a lot of painstaking research and their presentation of the facts is fair and accurate. The way they interpret those facts will be addressed shortly. Cremo and Thompson make no secret of the fact that their motivation in ...
506. The Origin of Language [Journals] [Aeon]
... , I must take a superficially uniformitarian viewpoint in this respect, in that I would argue that consciousness has always been an aspect of our species. No matter how difficult it might be to define, consciousness is as much a part of our makeup as our ears. Moreover, the Incas (as well as other cultures) never developed writing. Are they to be regarded as having been non-conscious? Such a question need hardly be asked. Jaynes' perception concerning the relationship between language and consciousness, however, remains a very interesting one. This appears especially so when he states that "each new stage of words literally created new perceptions and attentions..." ( ...
507. Discussion [Journals] [Aeon]
... It has been extensively argued that he was not a geophysicist but a meteorologist and that this was in some way a reason to reject his theory when it came to be internationally debated in the 1920's. Wegener was already the author of a textbook on the thermodynamics of the atmosphere at the time he proposed his version of continental drift. His writings reveal him to be thoroughly at home in the treatment of geophysical data. He wrote throughout his life on geophysical subjects, and his articles were published in geophysical journals. His ideas were considered important enough to be discussed by geophysicists in every country of the world. If that does not identify Wegener as a geophysicist, then nothing can ...
508. Magi, The Quest for a Secret Tradition by Adrian Gilbert [Journals] [SIS Review]
... he visited JG Bennett (d . 1974), who ran an experimental, esoteric school (at Sherborne House near Cheltenham), to find out more about ancient knowledge. His quest then took him to France, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Egypt, Urfa/Edessa, Harran and other places in Mesopotamia (now Turkey). From the writings of Bennett, Ouspensky (d . 1948) and Gurdjieff (d . 1949), each of whom was a pupil of the previous one, he followed certain leads, some of which were dead ends, but some led in unexpected interesting directions. Ouspensky said the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris contained a secret: the masons had a ...
... all seriousness by a scientist of repute. By August 16, Velikovsky reported to de Grazia that the Larrabee article had already garnered considerable commentary and a couple of college lecture invitations, and that he wished the current efforts by Larrabee and de Grazia would "bring to our side a few prominent scholars and scientists." Velikovsky was planning to write to Salvador Madariaga, who had read Stargazers and Gravediggers in the mid-1950s as a visiting professor at Princeton, to contact Bertrand Russell on his behalf. Harper's had sent Velikovsky copies of the "battle of letters" generated by Larrabee's piece, including a seventeen-page response by Donald Menzel. The response so far was about evenly divided: " ...
... first "disciple," Livio Catullo Stecchini, who, before getting a Harvard doctorate in history, had studied under Husserl and Heidegger at the University of Freiburg before World War Two. In 1950, when Stecchini was an assistant professor in the College of the University of Chicago, the head of his history department appealed to the faculty to write protest letters to Macmillan; Stecchini protested that not only had he not read Worlds in Collision, he had never heard of it. "Never mind," the chairman replied. "You go to my secretary and she will compose a letter for you. All that you will need to do is to sign it." ( ...
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