Shapley, along with others such as astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin also at Harvard , instigated a campaign against the book before its publication. For example, ancient Greek mythology asserts that the goddess Athena sprang from the head of Zeus. A lesson from Velikovsky. Mass Market Paperback , pages. Trivia About Worlds in Collision. 
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Skeptical Inquirer10 4 Aug 16, Nancy Clark rated veilkovsky liked it Recommended to Nancy by: In all this, atmospheres of both Venus and Earth changed a bit exchanging gassesand Venus while still being a comet, poured "vermins" and "naphta" from the sky while on Earth a cataclysmic event killed the vast majority of life human included on the planet, and only few survived. Though there are no statements against publication of the book, two of the three letters contain strong criticisms on some points of science.
Merely guessing something right does not necessarily demonstrate prior knowledge or a correct theory.
Immanuel Velikovsky
I wish these writers wouldn't get so reductionist. Jupiter emits radio noises. Worlds in Collision is a book written by Immanuel Velikovsky and first published April 3, The book postulated that around the 15th century BC, Venus was. May 3, Publisher: Mar 27, Joy rated it it was amazing. immanuwl
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Ancient descriptions of moving mountains were dismissed as exaggerations, and detailed astronomical records that don't match today's planetary movements were condemned as ignorant.
Which of course raises the question of why the deluge is mentioned in so many of them. With more literary treatment could work as sci-fi. However this strategy did not protect him: With this book Immanuel Velikovsky first presented the revolutionary results of his year-long interdisciplinary research to the public, founded modern catastrophism - based on eyewitness reports by our ancestors - shook the doctrine of uniformity of geology as well as Darwin's theory of evolution, put our view of the history of our solar system, of the Earth and of huma With this book Immanuel Velikovsky first presented the revolutionary results of his year-long interdisciplinary research to the public, founded modern catastrophism - based on eyewitness reports by our ancestors - shook the doctrine of uniformity of geology as well as Darwin's theory of evolution, put our view of the history of our solar system, of the Earth and of humanity on a completely new basis - and caused an uproar that is still going on today.
After that, the current "celestial order" was established. Velikovsky's ideas clllision been known to collisiom for years before the publication of the book, partially by his writing to astronomer Harlow Shapley of Harvardpartially through his pamphlet Cosmos Without Gravitation[8] [9] and partially by a preview of his work in an article in the August 11,edition of the New York Herald Tribune.
The controversy surrounding his work and its reception is colliion referred to as "the Velikovsky affair".
Interesting read, just to see why in s and 60s it was such a controversy. At the very least its immanuek would have been profoundly changed, made tremendously elliptical After all, our science is very dogmatic and ckllision like a religion and stuff is immanufl into our heads all our lives as gospel that has no real research or truth behind it, but it's SCIENCE so it's supposedly true. The author posits that 2 of the main events in Jewish history, the Exodus and the end of the Israel Kingdom, were spurred by 2 comets, the first one then becoming Venus, and the second Mars That is why this book was the subject of a ban from all the major Universities by boycotts to the publisher.
Cultures in Collision on the Fringes of Science. He was a MD who practiced medicine, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis. This view holds that the present is clolision key to the past, and that all things continue as they were from the beginning of the world.
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These conglomerates are now attributed to mega-tsunamis generated by massive velikovssky created by the periodic collapse of the sides of the islands. This failure to recognize the power of comets and asteroids means that it is reasonable to go back to Velikovsky and delete all the physically impossible text about Venus and Mars passing close to the earth.
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The red shift theory that most of our celestial theory is based on is also unsound. Consciousness ahead of his time What a book. Jun 08, Katrinka rated it really liked velikovsoy. I found that the collective memory of mankind spoke of a series of global catastrophes that occurred in historical times. The Temperature of Venus.
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