Velikovsky Reconsidered

Books, Publication

Velikovsky Reconsidered (1976) is a book by “The Editors of Pensée“, that describes itself thus:

“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?”^[1]The Editors of Pensée, Velikovsky Reconsidered, 1976, Doubleday. ISBN: 0-385-03118-1

Book contents

• Preface: “Collisions and Upheavals” Introduction

PART I

• The Scientific Mafia — David Stove 5
• The Censorship of Velikovsky’s Interdisciplinary Synthesis — Lynn E. Rose 13
• Shapley, Velikovsky, and the Scientific Spirit — Horace M. Kallen 20
• H. H. Hess and My Memoranda — Immanuel Velikovsky 32

PART II

• The Orientation of the Pyramids — Immanuel Velikovsky 59
• On Decoding Hawkins’ Stonehenge Decoded — Immanuel Velikovsky 62
• Babylonian Observations of Venus — Lynn E. Rose 73
• Earth Without a Moon — Immanuel Velikovsky 86
• Giordano Bruno’s View on the Earth Without a Moon — A. M. Paterson 88

PART III

• How Stable Is the Solar System? — C. J. Ransom 95
• Could Mars Have Been an Inner Planet? — Lynn E. Rose 100
• The Orbits of Mars, Earth, and Venus — Lynn E. Rose and Raymond C. Vaughan 102
• The Orbits of Venus — C. J. Ransom and L. H. Hoffee 103
• Velikovsky and the Sequence of Planetary Orbits — Lynn E. Rose and Raymond C. Vaughan 110
• Venus’ Circular Orbit — Chris S. Sherrerd 132
• Footnote by Immanuel Velikovsky 133
• Gyroscopic Precession and Celestial Axis Displacement — Chris S. Sherrerd 133
• Plasma in Interplanetary Space: Reconciling Celestial Mechanics and Velikovskian Catastrophism — Ralph E. Juergens 137

PART IV

• Venus Clouds: Test for Hydrocarbons — William T. Plummer 161
• Venus and Hydrocarbons — Immanuel Velikovsky 164
• The Nature of the Cytherean Atmosphere — Albert W. Burgstahler 171
• Venus’ Atmosphere — Immanuel Velikovsky 193
• Footnote by Albert W. Burgstahler 209
• A Letter from Peter R. Ballinger 210

PART V

• Are the Moon’s Scars Only Three Thousand Years Old? — Immanuel Velikovsky 215
• Lunar Rocks and Velikovsky’s Claims — Derek York 217
• When Was the Lunar Surface Last Molten? — Immanuel Velikovsky 220
• Effects of Volatility on Rubidium-Strontium Dating — Robert C. Wright 226
• Magnetic Remanence in Lunar Rocks — Robert Treash 227
• Is Venus’ Heat Decreasing? — Immanuel Velikovsky 234

PART VI

• The Center Holds — William Mullen 239
• Editors’ Postscript 249
• Index 251

See also

• Pensée journal