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221 pages of results. 581. Editorial [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... From: SIS Workshop Vol 4 No 3 (Dec 1981) Home | Issue Contents Editorial In his book Science: Good, Bad and Bogus, Gardiner writes, "In discussing extremes of unorthodoxy in science I consider it a waste of time to give rational arguments . . . when writing about extreme eccentricities of science I have adopted H. L. Mencken's sage advice; one horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms." While it must be admitted that there are times when recourse to rational argument must be sadly abandoned, Gardiner's rather arrogant assertion does seem to characterise the attitude that all too often prevails when Velikovsky's work is considered. But for the triumph of unorthodoxy in ...
582. The Birth and Death of Memory [Books] [de Grazia books]
... Love Affair of Moon and Mars, by Alfred De Grazia Home | Issue Contents CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Birth and Death of Memory In Pieria, Memoria, ruler of the hills of Eleuther, gave birth to the Muses out of union with Zeus, son of Chronos, and thus of the forgetting of ills and a rest from sorrow. So writes Hesiod, a contemporary of Homer in his Genealogy of the Gods. The Theogony was composed after 730 B.C ., that is, during or after the era of troubled skies; but it was a mythical work, "reporting" on events that had occurred hundreds and thousands of year before. "The ordered pantheon of ...
583. History, Proto-history, and Synchronisms [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... narrowly as possible to mean that period of the past which has been recorded by historians rather than by chroniclers. Chroniclers, the journalists of antiquity, wrote about who did what and when but rarely covered any span of time longer than a year. Historians, by contrast, tried to tell their readers how and why events occurred. Their writings were not merely descriptive but explanatory, in that they sought to trace causal links between events that were decades or more apart. The earliest writers whom I would acknowledge as historians in this sense are Hecataeus of Miletus in Greek Anatolia and Yen Ying of Chou China, both dating no earlier than the late sixth century B.C . ...
584. Science News [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... in "Nature", Vol. 275, pp. 606-611 (issue of 19.10.78). (The title is "Nautiloid growth rhythms and dynamical evolution of the Earth-Moon system", and the authors are Peter G. K. Kahn and Stephen M. Pompea.) "The substance of the paper", writes Mr. Reade, "is that some sea shells show growth rings which can be counted and which co-relate with the length of the natural month in days at the time when they were laid down. Modern ones show an average of 30.01 days per month but geologically ancient ones produce a descending scale which goes back to nine ...
585. Recent Developments in Near Eastern Archaeology [Journals] [SIS Review]
... top epigraphist Joseph Naveh have questioned the authenticity of two ostraca, one of which names King Ashyahu (probably = Joash or Josiah), which I reported in C&CR 1997:2 , p. 37. Ephal and Naveh point to the very high number of parallels between these two texts and passages from the Bible or other ancient writings (i .e . a forger may have based his texts on these ancient writings) and also to slight oddities in the handwriting (Israel Exploration Journal 48 [1998], pp. 269-273). They are cautious not to declare the ostraca as definite fakes but clearly they are very suspicious. Naveh has also recently queried the ...
586. Historical Forum [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... , the obstacles against these equations must surely be proved beyond all doubt. Consequently, disclaiming all pretence at expertise in matters historical, and with tongue in cheek', I attempted to find some flaws in Peter James' article: A Critique of Ramses II and His Time' which was printed in SISR III/2 . Subsequent to writing this criticism of Peter James' piece, I was further cheered by Vera I. Kerkhof's article in WORKSHOP 4, p 2, titled Chronological Questions and Question-Marks' which also attempted to demonstrate that the Revisionist's list of hard evidence' against Velikovsky might not be so hard' after all. My criticism of Peter James' article is ...
587. The Oracle of Cadmus [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... From: Proceedings of The Second Seminar of Catastrophism and Ancient History (1985) Home | Issue Contents The Oracle of Cadmus Martin Sieff The Road to Boetia According to tradition, the city of seven-gated Thebes, capital of Boeotia, was founded by Cadmus who, coming from Phoenicia, brought the art of writing- the alphabet- to Greece. "With almost no other city in Greece were there so many legends connected as with Thebes," Velikovsky wrote. "Even Hercules' nativity was sometimes placed in Thebes."[1 ] Velikovsky has also intimated that Cadmus, founder of Thebes, .. .may have been King Nikmed of Ugarit, who lived in ...
588. The Hamon-Gabriel-Mars Connection (Forum) [Journals] [Kronos]
... late date (as Mr. Cardona himself notes) as to render them scant justification for hailing Is.33 :3 as a decent piece of Martian catastrophism - with or without Jerome's "insight"! Indeed, Velikovsky himself seems not to have been happy with the information supplied by Trachtenberg. He firstly notes that "in some medieval writings Gabriel is associated with the moon, but in one or two with Mars". The italicized words, I suspect, prompted Velikovsky to attempt to reinforce the Martian angle by recourse to the hamon-Hamon-Gabriel-Origenwar-Mars complex, hence his phrase "the following, however, makes the identification of Gabriel possible . . ." It was this chain of ...
589. A Man Of Strife. File II (Stargazers and Gravediggers) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Stargazers]
... to have the chance to answer my opponents. Allen assented to this since journalistic ethics requires that the accused have the last word. It turned out that this demand was the right move on my part. Month after month passed, and Harper's could not find an opponent. Many an astronomer and geologist stated in the press that he could write an entire book to disprove Velikovsky; but when asked to write a rebuttal to me, nobody seemed willing to undertake the task, and Harper's efforts in approaching various scientists were futile. Shapley received Harper's invitation to take the stand, but he declined and suggested Neugebauer; the latter declined, too. After a few months of search ...
590. The Cyclic Nature of Ancient Catastrophes [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... when and what planet was passing over. Saturn was of sufficient importance in their view to merit its own place in the cosmic pantheon, and its own temple. Why? Perhaps the principle of resonance provides a clue. Another question: were the ancients aware of such astronomical cycles of catastrophism as we describe in our model? Mary Proctor writes: It was not till the time ofHalley's comet in 1682, that modern astronomy began to consider the question of the possibly periodic character of cometic motions with attention. (For my own part, I reject as altogether improbable the statement of Seneca that the ancient Chaldean astronomers could calculate the return of comets.)19 Perhaps Miss Proctor ...
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