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Velikovsky Reconsidered 2E by The Editors of Pensée is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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[bookmarks added]“This collection of papers from the pages of Pensée is but a sampling of an ongoing and expanding discussion triggered a quarter of a century ago by the publication of Immanuel Velikovsky‘s Worlds in Collision. As the Preface to this book recalls, the dominant celestial character and immediate cause of all turmoil in the inner solar system during the near millenium of history reconstructed in Velikovsky’s book was Venus — a planet now orbiting the Sun on the most nearly circular path in the entire system of planets and clearly a threat to no other body. Could this beautiful object in our skies be the same as that which Velikovsky describes as one of antiquity’s most feared gods?”When Worlds in Collision first appeared, the attribution of such a violent recent history to a planet widely regarded as essentially another Earth seemed perverse in the extreme. From what was then known of Venus, many astronomers felt justified in describing it as die Earth's sister planet...

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Author
The Editors of Pensée
Publisher
Doubleday & Co
Published
1976
Language
EN
ISBN
9780446823586
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Computer Science, Science, Astronomy

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