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the wrath of a number of astronomers and geologists twelve years ago. 6886 COSMIC HERETICS: PART 1: - Chapter 2: THE PRODIGAL ARCHIVE -
in the seventies. When two British astronomers, 8691 COSMIC HERETICS: PART 1: - Chapter 4: A PROPER RESPECT FOR AUTHORITY -
working on catastrophism, the two Edinburgh astronomers find themselves isolated, 9338 COSMIC HERETICS: PART 1: - Chapter 5: THE BRITISH CONNECTION -
catastrophes in human times, the Scottish astronomers want to read "comets" where the Deg-V. 9342 COSMIC HERETICS: PART 1: - Chapter 5: THE BRITISH CONNECTION -
V. -- in which he indoctrinates future astronomers in their first year with derision toward me and my work..."9560 COSMIC HERETICS: PART 2: - Chapter 6: HOLOCAUST AND AMNESIA -
of Science Conference at Notre-Dame: Astronomers do not like interference from other sciences, 9821 COSMIC HERETICS: PART 2: - Chapter 6: HOLOCAUST AND AMNESIA -
past century have not induced uniformitarian astronomers to alter their dogma of a calm celestial history. 12527 COSMIC HERETICS: PART 3: - Chapter 10: ABC'S OF ASTROPHYSICS -
can a book that enraged many astronomers commit no errors of astronomy? 12548 COSMIC HERETICS: PART 3: - Chapter 10: ABC'S OF ASTROPHYSICS -
indeed regarded as fact by physicists, astronomers, 12882 COSMIC HERETICS: PART 3: - Chapter 10: ABC'S OF ASTROPHYSICS -
a more real problem. Physicists and astronomers are ordinarily paid to go about their work without making waves. 13031 COSMIC HERETICS: PART 3: - Chapter 10: ABC'S OF ASTROPHYSICS -
they are now. But very few astronomers and philosophers have let the planets shift thereafter, 13120 COSMIC HERETICS: PART 3: - Chapter 10: ABC'S OF ASTROPHYSICS -
Bass went on to apply to astronomers the kind of pragmatic critique that impresses experts in propaganda analysis: "... 13140 COSMIC HERETICS: PART 3: - Chapter 10: ABC'S OF ASTROPHYSICS -
by Professor Roy in explaining why astronomers should prefer a longer rather than a shorter period of celestial stability:13243 COSMIC HERETICS: PART 3: - Chapter 10: ABC'S OF ASTROPHYSICS -
geophysicist (including the Princeton and Columbia astronomers who have pointed out in Science the correctness of some of Dr. 16050 COSMIC HERETICS: PART 4: - Chapter 13: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK -
It is not true that outstanding astronomers would not welcome a truly original man with constructive ideas. 16265 COSMIC HERETICS: PART 4: - Chapter 13: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK -
It is not true that outstanding astronomers would not welcome a truly original man with constructive ideas." 16340 COSMIC HERETICS: PART 4: - Chapter 13: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK -
disciplines would have to be revised. Astronomers would have to correct their own lamentable errors, 17366 COSMIC HERETICS: PART 4: - Chapter 14: THE FOIBLES OF HERETICS -
deans, and university presses, and intolerant astronomers. 20099 COSMIC HERETICS: PART 5: - Chapter 17: THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE -
It is widely believed that all astronomers, 20728 COSMIC HERETICS: PART 5: - Chapter 17: THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE -
stable, nor have they been. Lately astronomers have begun to reconsider the dogma of celestial stability. 21849 CHAOS AND CREATION: - - CHAPTER 01: COSMIC INSTABILITY : "ONE OR TWO CENTURIES" OF "ETERNAL ORDER"
supposedly the bane of the conventional astronomers. " 21907 CHAOS AND CREATION: - - CHAPTER 01: COSMIC INSTABILITY : "ONE OR TWO CENTURIES" OF "ETERNAL ORDER"
brief chapter has intimated several conclusions. Astronomers often have fallen victim to the myth of the eternal order of the heavens. 21924 CHAOS AND CREATION: - - CHAPTER 01: COSMIC INSTABILITY : "ONE OR TWO CENTURIES" OF "ETERNAL ORDER"
31, 32. Photographs and drawing by astronomers: 22393 CHAOS AND CREATION: - - CHAPTER 02: HIGH ENERGY FROM SPACE : PANDEMONIUM AND DARKNESS
Without recourse to the ancients, contemporary astronomers have come to the question, 24544 CHAOS AND CREATION: - - CHAPTER 05: SOLARIA BINARIA : THE BINARY PARTNER
is not of incidental significance that astronomers (for instance, 24793 CHAOS AND CREATION: - - CHAPTER 05: SOLARIA BINARIA : COMPLETION OF THE TRANSFORMATION
have been employed by early human astronomers. 24956 CHAOS AND CREATION: - - CHAPTER 05: SOLARIA BINARIA : EARLY ASTRONOMICAL IDEAS
the stars and received by radio astronomers on Earth. 28633 CHAOS AND CREATION: - - CHAPTER 09: THE OLYMPIAN RULERS : THE BEHAVIOR OF PLANET JUPITER
Planet Venus even now displays to astronomers a fan-like tail sunwards and a "comet-like tail" swept by solar winds into space 13 .29380 CHAOS AND CREATION: - - CHAPTER 10: VENUS AND MARS : THE HEAT OF VENUS
attacks upon Velikovsky by historians and astronomers, 29662 CHAOS AND CREATION: - - CHAPTER 10: VENUS AND MARS : A LONGER DAY
uniformitarian presumptions to believe that Hindu astronomers were incompetent before that time.29666 CHAOS AND CREATION: - - CHAPTER 10: VENUS AND MARS : A LONGER DAY
proof that the priests, rulers and astronomers were busily engaged in reckoning new calendars in the century following the Mars incursions, 29699 CHAOS AND CREATION: - - CHAPTER 10: VENUS AND MARS : A LONGER DAY
promptly appeared, based on notes of astronomers in the period 1611 to 1644. 30855 CHAOS AND CREATION: - - CHAPTER 12: VICTORY OF THE SUN : FOREBODINGS
thousand years. In 1978, two prominent astronomers in England, 30872 CHAOS AND CREATION: - - CHAPTER 12: VICTORY OF THE SUN : FOREBODINGS
the original inhabitants of the Americas; astronomers like William Whiston who perceived an exoterrestrial cause for the Noachian deluge; 32785 THE LATELY TORTURED EARTH: - - CHAPTER 1: Quantavolutions -
Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn. Astrophysicists and astronomers are edging into catastrophic explanations of the surfaces of the inner planets and the asteroidal belt between Mars and Jupiter. 32830 THE LATELY TORTURED EARTH: - - CHAPTER 1: Quantavolutions -
historians, meteorologists, radiocarbon dating specialists, and astronomers combined in a most unusual enterprise. 33346 THE LATELY TORTURED EARTH: PART I: ATMOSPHERICS: Chapter 2 The Gaseous Complex -
treatise to be published by professional astronomers. 38757 THE LATELY TORTURED EARTH: PART II: EXOTERRESTRIAL DROPS: Chapter 11 Encounter and Collisions -
present time almost universally accepted by astronomers. 46000 THE LATELY TORTURED EARTH: PART V: RIFTS, RAFTS AND BASINS: Chapter 24 Continental Tropism and Rafting -
as noted and welcomed by philosophical astronomers. 48185 THE LATELY TORTURED EARTH: PART VI: BIOSPHERICS: Chapter 28 Genesis and Extinction -
as gift-wrappings for their fossils; astronomers are inclined to believe that nothing serious happened upon Earth; 49590 THE LATELY TORTURED EARTH: PART VII: DIMENSIONS OF QUANTAVOLUTION: Chapter 30 Intensity, Scope and Suddenness -
in theory and in the laboratory. Astronomers figure time in light-years over vast distances, 49730 THE LATELY TORTURED EARTH: PART VII: DIMENSIONS OF QUANTAVOLUTION: Chapter 31 The Recency of the Surface -
surrounding space. The cosmic dust which astronomers see throughout the galaxies is matter yet to be forced into stellar cavities, 51080 SOLARIA-BINARIA: PART 1: ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE BINARY SYSTEM: Chapter 2: THE SOLAR SYSTEM AS ELECTRICAL -
one of the types to which astronomers pay the most attention - the variable stars, 51105 SOLARIA-BINARIA: PART 1: ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE BINARY SYSTEM: Chapter 2: THE SOLAR SYSTEM AS ELECTRICAL -
processes which power the Sun, most astronomers believe that there is an energy source deep in the solar interior obscured from view behind the opaque photosphere. 51294 SOLARIA-BINARIA: PART 1: ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE BINARY SYSTEM: Chapter 2: THE SOLAR SYSTEM AS ELECTRICAL -
of stars under close observation by astronomers. 51590 SOLARIA-BINARIA: PART 1: ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE BINARY SYSTEM: Chapter 3: THE SUN'S GALACTIC JOURNEY AND ABSOLUTE TIME -
H., p342). To circumvent that difficulty astronomers now rely upon color indices in place of spectrum classes 22 . 51609 SOLARIA-BINARIA: PART 1: ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE BINARY SYSTEM: Chapter 3: THE SUN'S GALACTIC JOURNEY AND ABSOLUTE TIME -
compounds of carbon are prominent. Although astronomers may continue to seek a more precise classification for stars, 51625 SOLARIA-BINARIA: PART 1: ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE BINARY SYSTEM: Chapter 3: THE SUN'S GALACTIC JOURNEY AND ABSOLUTE TIME -
is used to classify the stars, astronomers have also divided the stars into populations according to their location within the Galaxy.51630 SOLARIA-BINARIA: PART 1: ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE BINARY SYSTEM: Chapter 3: THE SUN'S GALACTIC JOURNEY AND ABSOLUTE TIME -
Certain stars called early- type by astronomers tend to have companions with shorter periods (Russell et al.,52159 SOLARIA-BINARIA: PART 1: ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE BINARY SYSTEM: Chapter 4: SUPER URANUS AND THE PRIMITIVE PLANETS -
would have attracted the attention of astronomers elsewhere to Solaria Binaria. 52171 SOLARIA-BINARIA: PART 1: ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE BINARY SYSTEM: Chapter 4: SUPER URANUS AND THE PRIMITIVE PLANETS -
Thus it became gradually more transparent. Astronomers see diluting plenum gases elsewhere in evolving binary systems. 52358 SOLARIA-BINARIA: PART 1: ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE BINARY SYSTEM: Chapter 5: THE SAC AND ITS PLENUM -
classes of circumstellar matter noted by astronomers became observable in their turn.52444 SOLARIA-BINARIA: PART 1: ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE BINARY SYSTEM: Chapter 5: THE SAC AND ITS PLENUM -
glitches (sudden decelerations of the object astronomers presume to be rotating). 52827 SOLARIA-BINARIA: PART 1: ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE BINARY SYSTEM: Chapter 6: THE ELECTRICAL AXIS AND ITS GASEOUS RADIATION : Notes on Chapter 6
binaries involve components which have perplexed astronomers, 54324 SOLARIA-BINARIA: PART 2: DESTRUCTION OF THE SOLAR BINARY: Chapter 10: INSTABILITY OF SUPER URANUS -
stellar source is often taken by astronomers as an indication of a very recent thermonuclear nova.56108 SOLARIA-BINARIA: PART 2: DESTRUCTION OF THE SOLAR BINARY: Chapter 14: THE GOLDEN AGE AND NOVA OF SUPER SATURN -
recovered some of his legendary features. Astronomers for some time have considered this planet to be a dark star (Newcombe). 56474 SOLARIA-BINARIA: PART 2: DESTRUCTION OF THE SOLAR BINARY: Chapter 15: THE JUPITER ORDER -
their interconnections in the holosphere. Ancient astronomers and writers appear to have had no difficulty in considering (or perhaps they were really reflecting upon) historic encounters governing the planets;56923 SOLARIA-BINARIA: PART 2: DESTRUCTION OF THE SOLAR BINARY: Chapter 16: VENUS AND MARS -
gravitational" celestial motions. Encke and later astronomers have noted with surprise how cometary bodies sometimes alter their angular momentum in seemingly sporadic episodes (Sekanina). 56944 SOLARIA-BINARIA: PART 2: DESTRUCTION OF THE SOLAR BINARY: Chapter 16: VENUS AND MARS -
run off the pens of elderly astronomers, " 57457 SOLARIA-BINARIA: PART 3: TECHNICAL NOTES: - TECHNICAL NOTE A: ON METHOD -
mythologist have the temerity to ask astronomers whether the Moon could be young or geologists whether a great land might be inundated, 57581 SOLARIA-BINARIA: PART 3: TECHNICAL NOTES: - TECHNICAL NOTE A: ON METHOD -
dilemmas cited by Clube as confronting astronomers can be resolved in a universe where electric forces are conceived to dominate.57946 SOLARIA-BINARIA: PART 3: TECHNICAL NOTES: - TECHNICAL NOTE C: : ON GRAVITATING ELECTRIFIED BODIES
in 5.9 days. This leads astronomers to conclude that Neptune is 17 times the mass of Earth.58304 SOLARIA-BINARIA: PART 3: TECHNICAL NOTES: - TECHNICAL NOTE D: : ON BINARY STAR SYSTEMS
have until recently been certified by astronomers and geologists not to have happened, 65753 HOMO SCHIZO I: - - Chapter 5: CULTURAL REVOLUTION : ECUMENICAL CULTURE
studies (1959, 407) that the Maya astronomers and those of the Han Chinese worked with an eclipse calendar of 11,65902 HOMO SCHIZO I: - - Chapter 5: CULTURAL REVOLUTION : AMERICAN CULTURAL ORIGINS
archaeoastronomer, writes that Old World proto-astronomers ... 66710 HOMO SCHIZO I: - - Chapter 6: SCHIZOID INSTITUTIONS : MEGALITHS AND MEGALINES
was called by some. Perhaps the astronomers, 79770 THE DISASTROUS LOVE AFFAIR OF MOON AND MARS PART 2: GODS, PLANETS, MADNESS Chapter 8: THE TWO FACES OF LOVE : CONFUSION COMPOUNDED
with the advice of the court astronomers gave to the planet Venus the name of Ishtar or Astarte or another such name. 80057 THE DISASTROUS LOVE AFFAIR OF MOON AND MARS PART 2: GODS, PLANETS, MADNESS Chapter 8: THE TWO FACES OF LOVE : HOW TO NAME A PLANET?
new astronomy occurred. After some decades, astronomers discovered, 80225 THE DISASTROUS LOVE AFFAIR OF MOON AND MARS PART 2: GODS, PLANETS, MADNESS Chapter 8: THE TWO FACES OF LOVE : THE ROMAN VENUS
seen. Although the best of ancient astronomers struggled to actuate the apparent frame in their observations and calculations, 82440 THE DISASTROUS LOVE AFFAIR OF MOON AND MARS PART 2: GODS, PLANETS, MADNESS Chapter 13: HOW THE GODS FLY -
planets do have such motions. Hence, astronomers and public now agree that, 84749 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
popularizer Asimov puts it, "the Greek astronomers realized that there must be more than one canopy. 84750 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
and postulated their orderly movement. Modern astronomers accepted his meaning and introduced their order on top of his order.84763 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
before explosion, of the Moon 18 . Astronomers are most reluctant to conjecture a comet of such size or greater, 85608 GODS FIRE: - - Chapter 1: PLAGUES AND COMETS : COMETS AND ANGELS
to a book by two British Astronomers, 85990 GODS FIRE: - - Chapter 1: PLAGUES AND COMETS : Notes (Chapter 1: Plagues and Comets)
had decamped with the Hebrews. The astronomers would have been quite discredited by events; 92176 GODS FIRE: - - Chapter 7: THE LEVITES AND THE REVOLTS : IMPEDIMENTA
comets, planets, or meteorites. Thus, the astronomers Strube and Napier attempted a natural history of the encounters between Earth and comets, 97385 THE DEVINE SUCCESSION PART 1: THEOMACHY Chapter 4: THE HEAVENLY HOST -
from experience as to be spooky. Astronomers walk on a tightrope between science and religion, 100086 THE DEVINE SUCCESSION PART 2: THEOTROPY: Chapter 11: RELIGIOUS ELEMENTS IN SCIENCE -
as a science. The most that astronomers can say empirically is that much of the universe, 100088 THE DEVINE SUCCESSION PART 2: THEOTROPY: Chapter 11: RELIGIOUS ELEMENTS IN SCIENCE -
That some of the more famous astronomers and related scientists of these decades - Urey, 100105 THE DEVINE SUCCESSION PART 2: THEOTROPY: Chapter 11: RELIGIOUS ELEMENTS IN SCIENCE -
687 B. C.?" In 1975 Soviet astronomers detect X-rays emanating from planet Saturn. 102092 THE BURNING OF TROY: - - Chapter 1: THE QUANTAVOLUTIONARY SCAN -
planet Venus, newly measured by radio astronomers, 102192 THE BURNING OF TROY: - - Chapter 1: THE QUANTAVOLUTIONARY SCAN -
too, of the recent theory of astronomers Hoyle and Wickramasinghe regarding the source of plagues (and life) from outer space, 106996 THE BURNING OF TROY: PART 3: WORKING OF THE MIND: Chapter 15: COMPTINOLOGY AND TOHU-BOHU -
events. Western Europe and the megalithic astronomers. 111581 THE BURNING OF TROY: PART 5: COMMUNICATING A SCIENTIFIC MODEL: Chapter 29: I.Q.: A UNIVERSITY PROGRAM : CURRICULUM
thousand galaxies can be counted but astronomers apply theories to infer that one billion galaxies exist in the universe; 126412 RECOLLECTIONS OF A FALLEN SKY - VELIKOVSKY AND CULTURAL AMNESIA : - FOREWORD : Notes (Foreword)
in their field at the time, astronomers in the main, 131529 RECOLLECTIONS OF A FALLEN SKY - VELIKOVSKY AND CULTURAL AMNESIA : Chapter 5: SHAKESPEARE AND VELIKOVSKY : Catastrophic Theory and the Springs of Art
and still persists today with some astronomers) that gravitation and inertia are the only forces that affect celestial motions. 132670 RECOLLECTIONS OF A FALLEN SKY - VELIKOVSKY AND CULTURAL AMNESIA : Chapter 8: AFTERWORD -
to plunge into inevitable conflict with astronomers, 133046 RECOLLECTIONS OF A FALLEN SKY - VELIKOVSKY AND CULTURAL AMNESIA : APPENDIX I ABOUT THE AUTHORS : IMMANUEL VELIKOVSKY
achievement of modern historians, archaeologists, and astronomers, 134544 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 1: MINDS IN CHAOS - - -
C. Even as recently as 1959 astronomers believed that because of the great reflecting power of its clouds, 134593 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 1: MINDS IN CHAOS - - -
Fifteen years later, in 1961, radio astronomers announced that radiation from Venus indicated that its surface must have a temperature of 600 degrees F. 134600 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 1: MINDS IN CHAOS - - -
geologist; and Shapley himself, speaking for astronomers. 134713 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 1: MINDS IN CHAOS - - -
opinions written by various orientalists and astronomers who had studied the tablets (Rawlinson, 134781 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 1: MINDS IN CHAOS - - -
number of the country's reputable astronomers descended from their telescopes to denounce Worlds in Collision, ' 134783 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 1: MINDS IN CHAOS - - -
to arguments presented earlier by archaeologists astronomers, 135065 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 1: MINDS IN CHAOS - - -
Observatories, was a rare exception among astronomers who participated in discussions of Worlds in Collision. 135093 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 1: MINDS IN CHAOS - - -
Later that same month American radio astronomers announced that the surface temperature of Venus must be 6000 F, 135310 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 1: MINDS IN CHAOS - - -
examples given below: Menzel claimed that astronomers recognized the presence of electrified gas and magnetic fields in interplanetary space long before Velikovsky. 135574 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 2: AFTERMATH TO EXPOSURE - - -
early as 1946 in letters to astronomers Harlow Shapley, 135601 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 2: AFTERMATH TO EXPOSURE - - -
Sky Telescope, a journal for amateur astronomers published by Harvard Observatory, 136001 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 2: AFTERMATH TO EXPOSURE - - -
April 1964 an announcement by radio astronomers of evidence that the planet Jupiter suddenly changed its period of rotation made front-page news. 136071 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 2: AFTERMATH TO EXPOSURE - - -
became topics of intense interest. Australian astronomers reported evidence of temperatures near 600F on the dark side of Mercury, 136085 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 2: AFTERMATH TO EXPOSURE - - -
reaction to Worlds in Collision among astronomers to Velikovsky's forceful reminder 'that astronomy is not a theoretical science, 136176 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 2: AFTERMATH TO EXPOSURE - - -
system is an assumption on which astronomers have placed a tacit reliance it by no means ever deserved.136179 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 2: AFTERMATH TO EXPOSURE - - -
II. Only a few years ago astronomers were unanimous in dismissing as preposterous Velikovsky's contention that the movement of the heavenly bodies is affected by electromagnetic fields.136236 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 3: THE INCONSTANT HEAVENS - - -
affected by electromagnetic fields. Today creative astronomers are immersed in the study of electromagnetism. 136238 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 3: THE INCONSTANT HEAVENS - - -
the motions of heavenly bodies. Whereas astronomers are perplexed at the implication of the new picture of the universe as derived from the space probes, 136248 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 3: THE INCONSTANT HEAVENS - - -
the eighteenth century a number of astronomers claimed to have seen and tracked this moon; 136704 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 3: THE INCONSTANT HEAVENS - - -
of telescopes made it impossible for astronomers of following generations to see what was not there. 136707 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 3: THE INCONSTANT HEAVENS - - -
in a Cytherean year. Still, many astronomers published reports of decades of observation that proved the correctness of the Newtonian view that Venus rotates in about 24 hours. 136713 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 3: THE INCONSTANT HEAVENS - - -
slowly, was not accepted by many astronomers until 1963. 136716 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 3: THE INCONSTANT HEAVENS - - -
two and a half centuries for astronomers to realize that they had been looking into the telescope with the eyes of their mind, 136719 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 3: THE INCONSTANT HEAVENS - - -
that these affect their motions, some astronomers objected that this had been proved impossible by Laplace. 136904 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 3: THE INCONSTANT HEAVENS - - -
all sorts of vituperation, especially among astronomers who, 137011 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 3: THE INCONSTANT HEAVENS - - -
Harvard Observatory, and later several other astronomers, 137017 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 3: THE INCONSTANT HEAVENS - - -
book with their worst personal fears. Astronomers saw the book as a defence of astrology; 137115 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 3: THE INCONSTANT HEAVENS - - -
in the position of the early astronomers who held that no truly respectable scholar should resort to the telescope. 137211 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 3: THE INCONSTANT HEAVENS - - -
personal vindictiveness: the record shows that astronomers hold to a peculiar dogma akin to the biblical story of Creation, 137215 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 3: THE INCONSTANT HEAVENS - - -
as one of Europe's leading astronomers' for twenty years, 137607 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 4: CUNEIFORM ASTRONOMICAL RECORDS AND CELESTIAL INSTABILITY - - -
of Nabonassar. Late Mesopotamian and Hellenistic astronomers reckon the years by a chronological system called 'era of Nabonassar, ' 137919 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 4: CUNEIFORM ASTRONOMICAL RECORDS AND CELESTIAL INSTABILITY - - -
it continued to be used by astronomers until the Julian era was adopted as the scientific era during the Renaissance.137928 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 4: CUNEIFORM ASTRONOMICAL RECORDS AND CELESTIAL INSTABILITY - - -
of Nabonassar did Babylonian and Assyrian astronomers feel the urge 'to ascertain and record the heavenly motions according to space and time by measurement and number. ' 137938 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 4: CUNEIFORM ASTRONOMICAL RECORDS AND CELESTIAL INSTABILITY - - -
and number. ' Before this era the astronomers of Mesopotamia would have been only 'stargazers' (the German word Sterngucker has a humorous connotation which may be rendered by 'starpeeper') who were 'exceptionally inclined to fantasy' (ausserördentlich phantasiereich). 137940 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 4: CUNEIFORM ASTRONOMICAL RECORDS AND CELESTIAL INSTABILITY - - -
of the era of Nabonassar, the astronomers of Mesopotamia, 137949 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 4: CUNEIFORM ASTRONOMICAL RECORDS AND CELESTIAL INSTABILITY - - -
the spring equinox. Second, the earlier astronomers of this group developed elaborate calculations which begin with basic figures set through a rough approximation. 137952 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 4: CUNEIFORM ASTRONOMICAL RECORDS AND CELESTIAL INSTABILITY - - -
diligent observation, he concluded that these astronomers liked to play with numbers and enjoyed calculations that had little to do with reality. 137958 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 4: CUNEIFORM ASTRONOMICAL RECORDS AND CELESTIAL INSTABILITY - - -
C., one can infer that Mesopotamian astronomers had not kept a record of eclipses before this date;137965 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 4: CUNEIFORM ASTRONOMICAL RECORDS AND CELESTIAL INSTABILITY - - -
of the method of pre-Nabonassar astronomers: 137974 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 4: CUNEIFORM ASTRONOMICAL RECORDS AND CELESTIAL INSTABILITY - - -
because of these phases. Only advanced astronomers would have been able to observe the phases of Venus. 138111 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 4: CUNEIFORM ASTRONOMICAL RECORDS AND CELESTIAL INSTABILITY - - -
be surprised at discovering that the astronomers of Mesopotamia were acquainted with them since unquestionably these astronomers had seen four satellites of Jupiter,138116 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 4: CUNEIFORM ASTRONOMICAL RECORDS AND CELESTIAL INSTABILITY - - -
acquainted with them since unquestionably these astronomers had seen four satellites of Jupiter,138117 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 4: CUNEIFORM ASTRONOMICAL RECORDS AND CELESTIAL INSTABILITY - - -
infer from the records that Mesopotamian astronomers made use of some means of optical enlargement. 138240 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 4: CUNEIFORM ASTRONOMICAL RECORDS AND CELESTIAL INSTABILITY - - -
evidence suggests to me that the astronomers of Mesopotamia made use of some sort of enlarging device 20 . 138293 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 4: CUNEIFORM ASTRONOMICAL RECORDS AND CELESTIAL INSTABILITY - - -
in limbo, it remains that the astronomers of Mesopotamia were acquainted with the phases of Venus and Mars and with four satellites of Jupiter, 138295 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 4: CUNEIFORM ASTRONOMICAL RECORDS AND CELESTIAL INSTABILITY - - -
essential point is that the early astronomers of Mesopotamia cannot be dismissed as fantasts who had no concern with empirical reality and lacked scientific spirit; 138299 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 4: CUNEIFORM ASTRONOMICAL RECORDS AND CELESTIAL INSTABILITY - - -
of the era of Nabonassar Babylonian astronomers were conducting investigations aimed at ascertaining basic data without which any scientific study of the heavens is impossible. 138305 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 4: CUNEIFORM ASTRONOMICAL RECORDS AND CELESTIAL INSTABILITY - - -
of the laws of celestial mechanics, astronomers would have accepted the facts, 138884 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 6: THE SCIENTIFIC RECEPTION SYSTEM - - -
among them the historian Pfeiffer and astronomers Adams and Motz. 138936 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 6: THE SCIENTIFIC RECEPTION SYSTEM - - -
are relatively few of the scientists - astronomers, 138957 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 6: THE SCIENTIFIC RECEPTION SYSTEM - - -
something of a surprise because radio astronomers had never expected a body as cold as Jupiter to emit radio waves (1. 139112 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 6: THE SCIENTIFIC RECEPTION SYSTEM - - -
will be least offended by it, astronomers most offended, 139347 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 6: THE SCIENTIFIC RECEPTION SYSTEM - - -
something of a surprise because radio astronomers had never expected a body as cold as Jupiter to emit radio waves 1 .140792 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: APPENDIX 1: ON THE RECENT DISCOVERIES CONCERNING JUPITER AND VENUS - - -