Velikovsky Reconsidered (Paperback)

by Pensee (Editor)

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• Paperback
• Publisher: Buccaneer Books (June 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1568495307
• ISBN-13: 978-1568495309
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #4,071,415 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Just a tad outdated, December 10, 2004

By	Gagewyn (United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

Velisovsky reconsidered is a follow up to Velisovsky's Worlds in Collision. Velisovsky published in the 1950's on a theories about the planet Venus. He thought that it had broken off from Jupiter about 10000 years ago and argued that it would be hot since it hadn't had time to cool. Between Velisovsky arguing this against the logic of the day, which believed that Venus had a similar surface temperature to earth, and the publication of Velisovky reconsidered, our ideas of surface temperature in Venus had fallen into line with his theories. Velisovsky had many more theories about Venus and what he proposed as its wandering unpredictable course through the solar system.

So there are some compelling connections and fulfilled predictions of Velisovsky's that emerged after his theories were published. However this book has an axe to grind. It is a seven part book, and one of those parts is devoted to articles on the scientific coverup of all these amazing theories about Venus. Oh yes, this book is a bound compilation of articles on different subjects by different authors. Many of these are the original works be Velisovsky which cover subjects from the pyramids to stonehinge to the moon to Venus (lots of Venus). Then there are followups to Velisovsky's articles that introduce the modern science. It is kind of a mish-mash.

Velisovky Reconsidered was first published in 1976, and is a compilation of papers published earlier. Since then our understanding of science has developed a great deal. By now the followups published in the 1970's are going to have been expanded or the facts as we know them are going to have changed. This book is more historical than scientific now. If you are seriously interested in Velisovsky's theories then try to find a more recent book on them.


Chapters:
Part I
The Scientific Mafia - David Stone
The Censorship of Velisovsky's Interedisciplinary Synthesis - Lynn E Rose
Shapley, Velisovsky, and the Scientific Spirit - Horace M Kallen
H H Hess and My Memoranda - Immanuel Velisovsky
Part II
The Orientation of the Pyramids - Immanuel Velisovsky
On Decoding Hawkins' Stonehenge Decoded - Immanuel Velisovsky
Babylonian Observations of Venus - Lynn E Rose
Earth Without a Moon - Immanuel Velisovsky
Giordano Bruno's View on the Earth Without a Moon - A M Paterson
Part III
How Stable is the Solar System? - C J Ransom
Could Mars Have Been an Inner Planet? - Lynn E Rosen
The Orbits of Mars, Earth, and Venus - Lynn E Rosen and Raymond C Vaugn
The Orbits of Venus - C J Ransom and L H Hoffee
Velisovsky and the Sequence of Planetary Orbits - Lynn E Rosen and Raymond C Vaugn
Venus' Circular Orbit - Chris S Sherrerd
Footnote by Immanuel Velisovsky
Gyroscopic Precession and Celestial Axis Displacement - Chris S Sherrerd
Plasma in Inter planetary Space: Reconciling celestial mechanics and Velisovskian Catastrophism - Ralph E Juergens
Part IV
Venus Clouds: Test for Hydrocarbons - William T Plummer
Venus and Hydrocarbons - Immanuel Velisovsky
The Nature of the Cytherean Atmosphere - Albert W Burgstahler
Venus' Atmosphere - Immanuel Velisovsky
Footnote by Albert W Burgstahler
A Letter from Peter R Ballinger
Part V
Are the Moon's Scars Only Three Thousand Years Old? - Immanuel Velisovsky
Lunar Rocks and Velisovsky's Claims - Derek York
When Was the Lunar Surface Last Molten? - Immanuel Velisovsky
Effects of Volatility on Rubidium-Strontium Dating - Robert C Wright
Magnetic Remanence in Lunar Rocks - Robert Treash
Is Venus' Heat Decreasing? - Immanuel Velisovsky
Part VI
The Center Holds - William Mullen
and an index