Stargazers and Gravediggers [Hardcover]

Immanuel Velikovsky (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Buccaneer Books (April 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1568490208
• ISBN-13: 978-1568490205
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,812,518 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Charming look at a shabby treatment, July 26, 1999

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dave ([e-mail]) (Tampa, Florida USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stargazers and Gravediggers (Hardcover)

Having spent a lot of time researching Velikovsky, I found this book to be the most enjoyable reading of any of his books. Here we see his charming wit, his good-natured approach to those who treated him in ways that were beneath the dignity of all involved. Velikovsky would prefer to say "I question his good faith" than "that was an outright lie!" and this belies the depression he suffered from his treatment, but illuminates his good nature. This book is autobiographical in many ways, though it primarily details the episodes from just prior to publication of Worlds in Collision until the early '70's. Velikovsky died in 1979, but his work has inspired thousands worldwide. More and more of the aspects of his theory are being demonstrated correct, and he has been rightly called "one of the most brilliant original thinkers of the century." This book will bring many smiles to the faces of any Velikovsky fans who can locate a copy.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!, September 17, 1996

By A Customer

This review is from: Stargazers and Gravediggers (Hardcover)

Velikovsky's own account of the furore surrounding the
publishing of his book Worlds in Collision in 1950.
Despite reaching number one in the best-seller list, its
publishers were force to drop the book and transfer
publishing rights to another publisher!
For more details on Velikovsky, check out:
http://www.knowledge.co.uk/xxx/cat/velikovsky.htm

5.0 out of 5 stars Velikovsky is the Modern Galileo Galilei / Giordano Bruno, April 30, 2011

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Matthew Goddard (Sierra Nevada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stargazers and Gravediggers (Hardcover)

Back in 1950, the scientific establishment unscientifically attacked, ridiculed, and then ignored Immanuel Velikovsky's magnum opus, 'Worlds in Collision'. In that book, Velikovsky proposed, among other things, that the main force underlying and driving celestial mechanics is electromagnetic, not gravitational as we are taught.

This episode marks one of the darkest era's of modern scientific thought, and has contributed to the current sorry state of affairs that is modern cosmology, and astrophysics. Have you ever wondered why, NASA, with it's millions of dollars, and latest technology is continually 'baffled' by their own findings?

Many of the answer's can be found in this book- 'Stargazers and Gravediggers' for, as you will see, those in positions of scholarship and academic merit, will put in overtime to discredit information that contradicts a lifetime of study. Apparently, it is preferable in modern science, to sweep evidence 'under the rug' rather than honestly, and rationally assessing the data presented.

To his credit, Velikovsky never attacked any of his critics, even though he surely felt the pain associated with such a dishonest and arrogant assault on his work and person.

This is a fantastic book, and it highlights the 'games people will play' in order to keep from admitting error.