Laird Scranton

The Velikovsky Heresies

Worlds in Collision and Ancient Catastrophes Revisited

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A reexamination of Immanuel Velikovskyâ s controversial Venus theories in light of new astronomical and archaeological findings.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 154mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 206g
• ISBN-13: 9781591431398
• ISBN-10: 1591431395
• Artikelnr.: 33942780

Autorenporträt

Laird Scranton, an independent software designer, has studied ancient myth, language, and cosmology since 1997. The author of several books, including The Science of the Dogon, he has been a lecturer at Colgate University and lives in Albany, New York.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Irrepressible Outsider
1 Worlds in Collision and the Firestorm It Created
2 Velikovsky’s Thesis
3 Reaction and Controversy
4 Early Predictive Tests of the Theory
5 Later Developments in the Controversy
6 Venus in Ancient Times
7 Could Venus Have Been Ejected from Jupiter?
8 Could Venus Have Made a Close Approach to Earth?
9 Could Venus Have Impacted Mars?
10 Could Mars Have Made a Close Approach to Earth?
11 What Evidence Is There That Venus Was Out of Its Orbit?
12 Could Venus Be a Young Planet?
13 Could Venus Have Been a Comet?
14 Could the Orbit of Venus Have Circularized So Quickly?
15 Observations on the New Evidence
Notes
Bibliography
Index