Contents
ARTICLES:
Fitting Lunar Dates …………………………………………………………………………. 2
Daphne Chappell
(plus ‘Reply to Chappell’ from Lynn E Rose) …………………………………. 6
Waters, Mountains and Serpents Surrounding the Earth ……….. 9
Moe Mandelkehr
Velikovskian Catastrophism: Science or Pseudoscience?
Part II – Thagard, Feyerabend and Hempel ………………………………. 17
Paul Sukys
On Epicycles and Ellipses ………………………………………………………………… 32
Laurence Dixon
Open-Mindedness and Ancient Chronology (an initial response to
Part I of Carl Olof Jonsson’s ‘Can the Persian Chronology Be Revised?’) … 36
Rolf Furuli
ESSAY-REVIEW
Can the Persian Chronology be Revised? – Part II ……………………. 38
Carl Olof Jonsson
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN NEAR-EASTERN
ARCHAEOLOGY – Robert M Porter ………………………………………. 57
REVIEWS: …………………………………………………………………………………….. 59
The Long Summer, by Brian Fagan – reviewed by Phillip Clapham; Genesis of the
Pharaohs, by Toby Wilkinson – reviewed by Phillip Clapham; The Electric Sky, by
Don Scott – reviewed by Laurence Dixon; Troy -The World Deceived: Homer’s Guide
Guide to Pergamum, by John Lascelles – reviewed by Phillip Clapham; Ancient
Egyptian Chronology, by E Hornung, et. al. – reviewed by Robert Porter; The Temple:
MeetingPlace of Heaven and Earth, by John Lundquist – reviewed by Phillip Clapham
EDITORIAL ADDRESS
‘Innisfree’, Highsted Valley,
Sittingbourne, Kent ME9 0AD, UK.
EDITORIAL TEAM – Jill Abery
(Editorial Co-ordinator), Eric
Aitchison, Phillip Clapham,
Laurence Dixon, Trevor Palmer,
Val Pearce, Emmet Sweeney and
David Roth
CONSULTANTS
J Bernard Delair – Geology
Laurence Dixon – Mathematics
Lewis M Greenberg – History of Art
Carl O Jonsson – Biblical Studies &
late Assyrian/Babylonian history
Moe M Mandelkehr – Myth
Trevor Palmer – Biology
Robert M Porter – Egyptology
Wal Thornhill – Physics/Astronomy
Peter Warlow – Physics
Irving Wolfe – Psychology of
Catastrophe
PRODUCTION
Val Pearce
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