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Home Articles posted by Rens van der Sluijs

Painted Into a Corner?

Dr. Anthony Peratt with (inset) Don Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola

Original Post February 2, 2012 History repeats itself – and that includes the history of science. Back in 1879, the very notion of ‘prehistoric cave art’ was unheard of. The famous Palaeolithic art galleries inside such caves as at Altamira, Trois Frères and Lascaux still lay undiscovered in the womb…

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Traditions of Science

A traditional cosmology based on Icelandic mythology and a scientific cosmology

Original Post December 28, 2011 Science and folk tradition are supposed to be strictly separate domains of knowledge, but in practice they often shade into each other. The image shown above right attempts to map the entire visible universe. The galaxies tend to collect into vast sheets and superclusters of…

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On the Shoulders of Suppressed Giants, Part Two

  From left to right: F. Gutekunst, Ignatius Loyola Donnelly (c. 1898). Courtesy Minnesota Historical Society, Saint Paul, Minnesota. Anonymous, William Comyns Beaumont (date unknown). Bob Kobres, Immanuel Velikovsky (1978) Original Post July 23, 2012 In bestsellers published in 1882 and 1883, the American politician and amateur scientist Ignatius Loyola…

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On the Shoulders of Suppressed Giants, Part One

  From left to right: Jacob Ferdinand Voet, Thomas Burnet (1675). Courtesy National Portrait Gallery, London. William Whiston (18th century), anonymous. Giovanni Rinaldo of Carli-Rubbi (date unknown).   Original Post July 20, 2012 Ever since 1950, ‘Velikovsky’ has been a household name, associated with a set of adventurous but highly…

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Caught in the Crossfire

Drawing of the Aurora Borealis

  Original Post July 18, 2012 In June 2012, a team of 4 Japanese researchers revealed in Nature that “an extremely energetic event occurred around our space environment in AD 775.” An analysis of Japanese cedar trees showed a “rapid increase” in the concentration of radiocarbon for that year, matched…

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Smoke Without Fire Part Two

Apr 29, 2019 Whatever the explanation, it would seem that Venus’ ‘smoking’ is the same as its ‘burning’ and that such incidents – regarded as portents – occurred throughout the historical period on a decadal or centennial time scale, ruling out any dramatic scenarios such as Velikovsky’s Venus comet. The…

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Smoke Without Fire Part One

Apr 26, 2019 From a study of ancient sources, the catastrophist polymath Immanuel Velikovsky (1895-1979) famously concluded that the planet Venus had presented a comet-like appearance just a few millennia ago. Instead of a puerile response of outright condemnation and censorship, the academic world ought to have invested its energy…

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O Christmas Tree! Thy Candles Shine So Brightly!

  Sep 14, 2017 That the Christmas tree did not originally root in Christian symbolism has never been a secret. The custom to erect a Christmas tree during the winter solstice, sustaining a reminder of the summer’s verdancy and abundance of sunlight through the heart of winter, is of ‘pagan’…

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O Christmas Tree! Thy Candles Shine So Brightly!

  Dec 23, 2016 That the Christmas tree did not originally root in Christian symbolism has never been a secret. The custom to erect a Christmas tree during the winter solstice, sustaining a reminder of the summer’s verdancy and abundance of sunlight through the heart of winter, is of ‘pagan’…

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Rens van der Sluijs December 23, 2016 December 23, 2016Picture of the Day

Smoke Without Fire Part Two

Dec 21, 2016 Whatever the explanation, it would seem that Venus’ ‘smoking’ is the same as its ‘burning’ and that such incidents – regarded as portents – occurred throughout the historical period on a decadal or centennial time scale, ruling out any dramatic scenarios such as Velikovsky’s Venus comet. The…

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