REGRESSIONS...............2 (0.000%)
diseases. In the middle of advances, regressions are minimized or even denied scornfully. 7304 COSMIC HERETICS: PART 1: - Chapter 3: CHEERS AND HISSES -
For example, Freud's typology of regressions is not the typology adopted by novelists. 108066 THE BURNING OF TROY: PART 3: WORKING OF THE MIND: Chapter 19: THE 'UNCONSCIOUS' AS A LITERARY REVOLT AGAINST SCIENCE : DETAILED EXPOSITION OF THE PROJECT
 
 REGRESSIVE................4 (0.000%)
doctrine of simultaneous systemic mutation, both regressive and progressive.10659 COSMIC HERETICS: PART 2: - Chapter 8: HOMO SCHIZO MEETS GOD -
conceived (although if time is infinitely regressive then the speed of their creation is inconsequential). 11008 COSMIC HERETICS: PART 2: - Chapter 8: HOMO SCHIZO MEETS GOD -
man offers a splendid example of regressive evolution. 71446 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 2: THE SEARCH FOR LOST INSTINCT : "YOU CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN"
it might be to possess a "regressive" evolution, 71986 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 3: BRAINWORK : THE LOCATION OF INSTINCT DELAY
 
 REGRET....................13 (0.002%)
Belfast Telegraph": Dear Martin, I do regret that I cannot plot some position for you that would enable you to carry on your valuable work in quantavolution and history, 9142 COSMIC HERETICS: PART 1: - Chapter 5: THE BRITISH CONNECTION -
agree upon, and they would promptly regret having made such a substitute for the unrealized larger portion of their ideal.10497 COSMIC HERETICS: PART 2: - Chapter 8: HOMO SCHIZO MEETS GOD -
Mr. Margolis' article, and (2) your regret for the incorrect unjustified slurs upon the character and motives of Dr. 16116 COSMIC HERETICS: PART 4: - Chapter 13: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK -
more than two years. To his regret, 17601 COSMIC HERETICS: PART 4: - Chapter 14: THE FOIBLES OF HERETICS -
November 17, 1979 Dear Brian: I regret to report to you and to your colleagues and members of the Society for Interdisciplinary Studies the deaths, 19435 COSMIC HERETICS: PART 5: - Chapter 16: PRECURSORS OF QUANTAVOLUTION -
working upon any subject whatsoever. We regret, 57472 SOLARIA-BINARIA: PART 3: TECHNICAL NOTES: - TECHNICAL NOTE A: ON METHOD -
to re-examine their data. I regret not being able to credit the full literature and cannot pretend to have slighted nobody. 60541 HOMO SCHIZO I: - - - FOREWORD -
arena. It is too late to regret the passing of the animal. 64186 HOMO SCHIZO I: - - Chapter 4: THE GESTALT OF CREATION : A MIND SPLIT BY MINUTE DELAYS
mountain of explanations. Or we can regret how pathetically little the words convey of the world in which the two men are operating. 75548 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 7: THE GOOD, THE TRUE, AND THE BEAUTIFUL : THE USES OF PUBLIC REASON
one, under normal conditions, will never regret his course of life nor lose his expectations.96940 THE DEVINE SUCCESSION PART 1: THEOMACHY Chapter 3: KNOWING THE GODS -
leave. Etruscan lupu died. Greek pothos, regret for what is missing, 124592 - A FIRE NOT BLOWN: - - Chapter 20: QUAIRO: RAISING THE KA -
a letter to Velikovsky the great regret he still feels for Macmillan's capitulation.134939 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 1: MINDS IN CHAOS - - -
unconstructive vituperation. Kugler, years later, expressed regret for the asperity of his attacks on the Panbabylonists. 138200 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 4: CUNEIFORM ASTRONOMICAL RECORDS AND CELESTIAL INSTABILITY - - -
 
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a real contribution and am very regretful that neither my efforts, 7160 COSMIC HERETICS: PART 1: - Chapter 3: CHEERS AND HISSES -
 
 REGRETS...................3 (0.000%)
I should call and give my regrets for not coming. 15089 COSMIC HERETICS: PART 4: - Chapter 12: THE THIRD WORLD OF SCIENCE -
blurts out words that she instantly regrets: " 90832 GODS FIRE: - - Chapter 6: THE CHARISMA OF MOSES : CIRCUMCISION AND SPEECH PROBLEMS
has proved to be. The latter regrets that at the end of his presentation Kugler took a stand against 'catastrophism; ' 137806 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 4: CUNEIFORM ASTRONOMICAL RECORDS AND CELESTIAL INSTABILITY - - -
 
 REGRETTABLE...............3 (0.000%)
obvious to the Q, and angrily regrettable, 1237 QUANTAVOLUTION AND CATASTROPHE: PART 4: PROSPECTIVE CHANGES IN THE Q-C TEST - - -
then "jail," and "marijuana," and "most regrettable," 7547 COSMIC HERETICS: PART 1: - Chapter 3: CHEERS AND HISSES -
ignored by his opponents, which is regrettable since I heartily desire to hear their interpretation of the astronomical records submitted by Kugler.137576 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 4: CUNEIFORM ASTRONOMICAL RECORDS AND CELESTIAL INSTABILITY - - -
 
 REGRETTABLY...............4 (0.000%)
of Velikovsky (though perhaps not enough, regrettably, 15869 COSMIC HERETICS: PART 4: - Chapter 13: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK -
the land in wave upon wave. Regrettably, 42702 THE LATELY TORTURED EARTH: PART IV: CRUSTAL TURBULENCE: Chapter 18 Sinking and Rising Lands -
longer demanded, indicated, or affordable. These regrettably brief passages on psychotherapy have achieved their intent if they have exposed the prevalence of reductionism in dealing with aberrant human minds. 70421 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 1: THE NORMALLY INSANE : THERAPIES
treatise of serious consequence? ' the answer, regrettably, 134103 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: - SCIENTISM VERSUS SCIENCE - INTRODUCTION TO THE 2ND EDITION -
 
 REGRETTED.................4 (0.000%)
Deg would not join him; he regretted the diversion of the intelligent energies that had placed Sizemore among the top dozen of no more than a few score active promoters of quantavolution in the world.17291 COSMIC HERETICS: PART 4: - Chapter 14: THE FOIBLES OF HERETICS -
in Columbia College, I have always regretted the action of a few misguided souls who reacted 13 years ago to "Worlds in Collision" by attacking Velikovsky's publisher -- I think it was Macmillan. 18068 COSMIC HERETICS: PART 5: - Chapter 15: THE KNOWLEDGE INDUSTRY -
so on, and A. J. Nicholson regretted that whereas much attention had been given to the disappearance of unfit forms, 61178 HOMO SCHIZO I: - - Chapter 1: SLIPPERY LADDERS OF EVOLUTION : SEVERE LIMITS TO NATURAL SELECTION
its operation in the universe. He regretted that Gilbert had been so much a mere experimenter and had failed to mathematize magnetic phenomena in which we have seen to be the Galileian manner. '137245 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 3: THE INCONSTANT HEAVENS - - -
 
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Bleuler's list of symptoms and regroup them for our own purpose of coming to a focus on the core of human nature. 70035 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 1: THE NORMALLY INSANE : SYMPTOMS OF MENTAL ILLNESS
is nowhere to go. The survivors regroup after each incident. 83897 THE DISASTROUS LOVE AFFAIR OF MOON AND MARS PART 3: THERAPY FOR GROUP FEAR Chapter 15: THE BIRTH AND DEATH OF MEMORY : FORGETTING
the survivors are crazed. They must regroup, 83908 THE DISASTROUS LOVE AFFAIR OF MOON AND MARS PART 3: THERAPY FOR GROUP FEAR Chapter 15: THE BIRTH AND DEATH OF MEMORY : FORGETTING
Cohorts disappear. Strangers appear. The survivors regroup after each incident. 127548 RECOLLECTIONS OF A FALLEN SKY - VELIKOVSKY AND CULTURAL AMNESIA : Chapter 2: THE PALAETIOLOGY OF FEAR AND MEMORY : FORGETTING
the survivors are crazed. They must regroup, 127557 RECOLLECTIONS OF A FALLEN SKY - VELIKOVSKY AND CULTURAL AMNESIA : Chapter 2: THE PALAETIOLOGY OF FEAR AND MEMORY : FORGETTING
 
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of the solar system can be regrouped around the concepts necessary to a binary model 3 . 24395 CHAOS AND CREATION: - - CHAPTER 05: SOLARIA BINARIA -
of natural disasters. The marginal survivors regrouped repeatedly in the following century. 79076 THE DISASTROUS LOVE AFFAIR OF MOON AND MARS PART 2: GODS, PLANETS, MADNESS Chapter 7: CRAZY HEROES OF DARK TIMES : THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE
 
 REGROUPMENT...............1 (0.000%)
meanders northwest from the North Greenland regroupment, 43937 THE LATELY TORTURED EARTH: PART V: RIFTS, RAFTS AND BASINS: Chapter 21 Ocean Basins -
 
 REGROWTH..................1 (0.000%)
of resettling of the landscape and regrowth. 105192 THE BURNING OF TROY: PART 2: GEOLOGICAL ISSUES: Chapter 10: INDIANS OF ILLINOIS -
 
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adopted the word in the form regs, 124688 - A FIRE NOT BLOWN: - - Chapter 21: KINGS -
 
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and organic forms occurred by lawful, regular processes of nature. 347 QUANTAVOLUTION AND CATASTROPHE: PART 2: THE Q-C TEST - - -
and organic forms occurred by lawful, regular processes of nature. 710 QUANTAVOLUTION AND CATASTROPHE: PART 3: A Comment on the Q-C Test and Its Individual Items - - -
book as work in science. A regular catalogue of Macmillan books in science carried Worlds in Collision as a possible supplementary reading in general courses. 7018 COSMIC HERETICS: PART 1: - Chapter 2: THE PRODIGAL ARCHIVE -
and get out any kind of regular journal, 7832 COSMIC HERETICS: PART 1: - Chapter 3: CHEERS AND HISSES -
can all get together on a regular basis. 9264 COSMIC HERETICS: PART 1: - Chapter 5: THE BRITISH CONNECTION -
go berserk, catatonic, orgiastic at her regular, 12531 COSMIC HERETICS: PART 3: - Chapter 10: ABC'S OF ASTROPHYSICS -
been quick to settle upon a regular line of thought. 12734 COSMIC HERETICS: PART 3: - Chapter 10: ABC'S OF ASTROPHYSICS -
favorable reviewers. 17. Efforts to supplant regular reviewers with volunteer authoritative writers as reviewers.15574 COSMIC HERETICS: PART 4: - Chapter 13: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK -
of Harvard University who wrote a regular feature for the magazine Natural History, 18360 COSMIC HERETICS: PART 5: - Chapter 15: THE KNOWLEDGE INDUSTRY -
the process of decay be so regular 33 ? 22956 CHAOS AND CREATION: - - CHAPTER 03: COLLAPSING TESTS OF TIME : RADIODATING
to the "A" aggregate causing a regular rate of loss. 22960 CHAOS AND CREATION: - - CHAPTER 03: COLLAPSING TESTS OF TIME : RADIODATING
that human behavior is most compulsively regular on matters that were once uncontrollably and disastrously irregular. 24288 CHAOS AND CREATION: - - CHAPTER 04: A CATASTROPHIC CALENDAR : WHY 14,000 YEARS?
built (ca. 4500 B. P.), the regular movements of the stars on the celestial plane were known but not necessarily the 26,24913 CHAOS AND CREATION: - - CHAPTER 05: SOLARIA BINARIA : THE SKY-WATCHERS
the less so as it became regular in its behavior. 26997 CHAOS AND CREATION: - - CHAPTER 07: EARTH PARTURITION AND MOON BIRTH : LUNAR WORSHIP
relatively remote as a threat. Its regular (or at least slowly changing behavior) permitted it a minor role in influencing human minds and practices. 27012 CHAOS AND CREATION: - - CHAPTER 07: EARTH PARTURITION AND MOON BIRTH : LUNAR WORSHIP
fascinating. As the lunar cycle became regular, 27015 CHAOS AND CREATION: - - CHAPTER 07: EARTH PARTURITION AND MOON BIRTH : LUNAR WORSHIP
keep the Sun from stopping its regular rounds. 29725 CHAOS AND CREATION: - - CHAPTER 10: VENUS AND MARS : A LONGER DAY
short term, the process is fairly regular. 33125 THE LATELY TORTURED EARTH: PART I: ATMOSPHERICS: Chapter 2 The Gaseous Complex -
That is, they may be fairly regular attempts of electricity to jump the gap between the Sun and its binary. 33390 THE LATELY TORTURED EARTH: PART I: ATMOSPHERICS: Chapter 2 The Gaseous Complex -
Despite deliberate tropical burnings that are regular and go back hundreds of years, "35975 THE LATELY TORTURED EARTH: PART I: ATMOSPHERICS: Chapter 7 Fire and Ash -
phenomena have gradually become more complete, regular, 36757 THE LATELY TORTURED EARTH: PART II: EXOTERRESTRIAL DROPS: Chapter 8 Falling Dust and Stone -
environment; the asteroids are generally in regular orbit. 38588 THE LATELY TORTURED EARTH: PART II: EXOTERRESTRIAL DROPS: Chapter 11 Encounter and Collisions -
simply as tides operate with the regular passage of the Moon or of a single earthquake. 40084 THE LATELY TORTURED EARTH: PART III: HYDROLOGY: Chapter 14 Floods and Tides -
to get him back upon his regular rounds. 48612 THE LATELY TORTURED EARTH: PART VI: BIOSPHERICS: Chapter 29 Spectres -
because an old settled Earth, pursuing regular motions, 48685 THE LATELY TORTURED EARTH: PART VI: BIOSPHERICS: Chapter 29 Spectres -
radiodecay rates of known elements are regular and inalterable by any conceivable environmental force. 49740 THE LATELY TORTURED EARTH: PART VII: DIMENSIONS OF QUANTAVOLUTION: Chapter 31 The Recency of the Surface -
for an indefinitely long series of regular movements or changes. 49748 THE LATELY TORTURED EARTH: PART VII: DIMENSIONS OF QUANTAVOLUTION: Chapter 31 The Recency of the Surface -
mechanism be the origin of the regular pulses of radiation observed in celestial objects called pulsars? 52678 SOLARIA-BINARIA: PART 1: ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE BINARY SYSTEM: Chapter 6: THE ELECTRICAL AXIS AND ITS GASEOUS RADIATION -
ever-living fire, kindling itself by regular measures and going out by regular measures". 52791 SOLARIA-BINARIA: PART 1: ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE BINARY SYSTEM: Chapter 6: THE ELECTRICAL AXIS AND ITS GASEOUS RADIATION -
regular measures and going out by regular measures". 52792 SOLARIA-BINARIA: PART 1: ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE BINARY SYSTEM: Chapter 6: THE ELECTRICAL AXIS AND ITS GASEOUS RADIATION -
of light. If the pulsing were regular, 54169 SOLARIA-BINARIA: PART 2: DESTRUCTION OF THE SOLAR BINARY: Chapter 10: INSTABILITY OF SUPER URANUS -
is implied rather than established. The regular recurrence may be a discharge effect. 54336 SOLARIA-BINARIA: PART 2: DESTRUCTION OF THE SOLAR BINARY: Chapter 10: INSTABILITY OF SUPER URANUS -
a translated memory of a longer regular interval unknown to us, 56145 SOLARIA-BINARIA: PART 2: DESTRUCTION OF THE SOLAR BINARY: Chapter 14: THE GOLDEN AGE AND NOVA OF SUPER SATURN -
other phenomena are seen which show regular periodicity betraying the binary nature of the system. 58147 SOLARIA-BINARIA: PART 3: TECHNICAL NOTES: - TECHNICAL NOTE D: : ON BINARY STAR SYSTEMS
the incorporation of a population in regular wars or killings (the Roman circuses, 68047 HOMO SCHIZO I: - - Chapter 7: PSYCHOPATHOLOGY OF HISTORY : ORDINARY MAD TIMES
the dominant section that gives out regular bulletins that "All is quiet on the western front" - until the front collapses.72543 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 3: BRAINWORK : PSYCHOSOMATISM
the world orderly and the sun regular. 74080 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 5: COPING WITH FEAR : ORGIES AND HOLOCAUSTS
arrived, did the Aztecs cease their regular cannibal sacrifices of thousands of persons," 74098 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 5: COPING WITH FEAR : ORGIES AND HOLOCAUSTS
of the ring" of its more regular orbit. 78550 THE DISASTROUS LOVE AFFAIR OF MOON AND MARS PART 2: GODS, PLANETS, MADNESS Chapter 7: CRAZY HEROES OF DARK TIMES : THE SAGE WHO BRIDGED THE DARK AGES
old cometary Venus, on a new regular and unthreatening orbit. 80227 THE DISASTROUS LOVE AFFAIR OF MOON AND MARS PART 2: GODS, PLANETS, MADNESS Chapter 8: THE TWO FACES OF LOVE : THE ROMAN VENUS
the Martian "atmosphere" is capable of regular electrical phenomena such as produce clouds, 81705 THE DISASTROUS LOVE AFFAIR OF MOON AND MARS PART 2: GODS, PLANETS, MADNESS Chapter 11: THE BLASTED CAREER OF THE MIGHTY SWORDSMAN : THE FATAL WOUND
gives an orientation by pursuing its regular rounds. 82561 THE DISASTROUS LOVE AFFAIR OF MOON AND MARS PART 2: GODS, PLANETS, MADNESS Chapter 13: HOW THE GODS FLY : THE MOVEMENTS OF THE SCENARIO
are self-moved movers executing perfectly regular motions; 84006 THE DISASTROUS LOVE AFFAIR OF MOON AND MARS PART 3: THERAPY FOR GROUP FEAR Chapter 15: THE BIRTH AND DEATH OF MEMORY : AMNESIAC PHILOSOPHERS
Pythagoras asserted their paths to be regular. 84758 THE DISASTROUS LOVE AFFAIR OF MOON AND MARS PART 3: THERAPY FOR GROUP FEAR Chapter 17: SETTLED SKY AND UNSETTLED MIND : THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE
causes and as preserving itself by regular motions whose disruption was quite unlikely.84777 THE DISASTROUS LOVE AFFAIR OF MOON AND MARS PART 3: THERAPY FOR GROUP FEAR Chapter 17: SETTLED SKY AND UNSETTLED MIND : THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE
meteorites from time to time. A regular swarm hits the atmosphere and is to be seen on or about August 10 of each year. 87787 GODS FIRE: - - Chapter 3: CATASTROPHE AND DIVINE FIRES : THE CELESTIAL FIRST CAUSE
atonement of the Mexicans to the regular return of the great comet, 88781 GODS FIRE: - - Chapter 4: THE ARK IN ACTION : THE BATTLE OF JERICHO
This may be interpreted as a regular order of the universe. 97328 THE DEVINE SUCCESSION PART 1: THEOMACHY Chapter 4: THE HEAVENLY HOST -
drinking, battling, sacrificing, cannibalism, and feasting. Regular and sporadic orgies, 97963 THE DEVINE SUCCESSION PART 1: THEOMACHY Chapter 6: RITUAL AND SACRIFICE -
behavior might be predictable when certain regular operating conditions were established by its structure.100051 THE DEVINE SUCCESSION PART 2: THEOTROPY: Chapter 11: RELIGIOUS ELEMENTS IN SCIENCE -
and Nature. A much more extended, regular survey is obviously needed; 102061 THE BURNING OF TROY: - - Chapter 1: THE QUANTAVOLUTIONARY SCAN -
ice core were to demonstrate the regular passage of a long stretch of uneventful time, 105317 THE BURNING OF TROY: PART 2: GEOLOGICAL ISSUES: Chapter 11: ICE CORES OF GREENLAND -
the frozen material, except by tiny regular increments: 105328 THE BURNING OF TROY: PART 2: GEOLOGICAL ISSUES: Chapter 11: ICE CORES OF GREENLAND -
the remnant be dated as a regular recession from rates calculated from the layering of the new ice? 105571 THE BURNING OF TROY: PART 2: GEOLOGICAL ISSUES: Chapter 11: ICE CORES OF GREENLAND -
scientific and empirical foundations? The more regular that glacial history in Greenland is portrayed by the tests, 105681 THE BURNING OF TROY: PART 2: GEOLOGICAL ISSUES: Chapter 11: ICE CORES OF GREENLAND -
top of it, two thousand fairly regular years succeeded, 105702 THE BURNING OF TROY: PART 2: GEOLOGICAL ISSUES: Chapter 11: ICE CORES OF GREENLAND -
of so long a period of regular celestial motions that no catastrophe could have occurred, 107256 THE BURNING OF TROY: PART 3: WORKING OF THE MIND: Chapter 17: MAKING MOONSHINE WITH HARD SCIENCE -
recollect, the skies have been perfectly regular and before that, 107432 THE BURNING OF TROY: PART 3: WORKING OF THE MIND: Chapter 17: MAKING MOONSHINE WITH HARD SCIENCE -
viewed the universe as ordered and regular, 107655 THE BURNING OF TROY: PART 3: WORKING OF THE MIND: Chapter 19: THE 'UNCONSCIOUS' AS A LITERARY REVOLT AGAINST SCIENCE -
nuclear bomb testing is practiced, if regular super-sonic plane flights are scheduled, 110704 THE BURNING OF TROY: PART 5: COMMUNICATING A SCIENTIFIC MODEL: Chapter 27: A COSMIC DEBATE : V
It denied the value of infinite, regular series; 112101 THE BURNING OF TROY: PART 5: COMMUNICATING A SCIENTIFIC MODEL: Chapter 30: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE : THE POLITICS OF UNIFORMITARIANISM
novendiales, was declared and became a regular festival whenever falls of stones occurred. 112651 KA: - - Chapter 1: AUGURY -
had a series of openings at regular intervals. 112846 KA: - - Chapter 1: AUGURY -
He often wears a tore. His regular companion is the ram- headed or horned serpent. 114836 KA: - - Chapter 6: SKY LINKS -
physically and morally) which is rational, regular, 136320 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 3: THE INCONSTANT HEAVENS - - -
The belief in the simple and regular motion of the planets, 136380 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 3: THE INCONSTANT HEAVENS - - -
relativity of time; since no completely regular motion can be discovered, 136383 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 3: THE INCONSTANT HEAVENS - - -
and that their motions are rigidly regular, 136386 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 3: THE INCONSTANT HEAVENS - - -
could give birth to so many regular motions, 136680 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 3: THE INCONSTANT HEAVENS - - -
work was subjected to double the regular scrutiny by experts prior to publication because of these pressures. 138939 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 6: THE SCIENTIFIC RECEPTION SYSTEM - - -
cues were given. Lacking a conscious, regular system for the reception of new materials, 140011 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 6: THE SCIENTIFIC RECEPTION SYSTEM - - -
epistemology, and pragmatic logic should be regular instruments of all of the sciences and philosophy.140076 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 6: THE SCIENTIFIC RECEPTION SYSTEM - - -
science and all of its parts, regular reports should be prepared on the costs of maintenance, 140101 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 6: THE SCIENTIFIC RECEPTION SYSTEM - - -
from before 1500 B. C. describe regular motions of this planet 'exactly as we see it, ' 140310 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 6: THE SCIENTIFIC RECEPTION SYSTEM - - -