Contents
IN MEMORIUM – Len Saunders …….………………………….. 2
ARTICLES
Rens van der Sluijs – Plasma Cosmology: A Research
Programme …………………………………………………. 3
Paul Sukys – The Literary Velikovsky: Mythistory and
The Cradle of Saturn …………………………………….. 10
Daphne Chappell – The Papyrus Ebers Calendar: Civil
or Lunar? ..………………………………………. 22
Ev Cochrane – The Latin Goddess Venus ………………………….. 28
Laurence Dixon – Why Change a Calendar? – Which
Year Did Bede Think He Lived In?..………… 35
Trevor Palmer – Lamarck, the Man, the Myth and the
Legacy …………………………………………………. 40
REPORTS
On the SIS Autumn Lecture Meeting with David Rohl, 19th
September 2009, Redhill, Surrey ……………………………………… 52
On the talk given on 9th August 2009 by Wal Thornhill, on the
occasion of his visit to London …………………………………………. 75
BOOK REVIEWS:
The Velikovsky Inheritance – reviewed by Brian Moore .……….. 78
Pillars of the Past, Vol. II – reviewed by Jill Abery ……………….. 79
EDITORIAL ADDRESS
‘Innisfree’, Highsted Valley,
Sittingbourne, Kent ME9 0AD, UK.
EDITORIAL TEAM – Jill Abery
(Editorial Co-ordinator); Daphne
Chappell; Phillip Clapham;
Laurence Dixon; Val Pearce;
Emmet Sweeney; and David Roth
CONSULTANTS
Jill Abery – Biology
J Bernard Delair – Geology
Laurence Dixon – Mathematics
Lewis M Greenberg – Art History
Carl O Jonsson – Biblical Studies &
late Assyrian/Babylonian history
Trevor Palmer – Biochemistry
Robert M Porter – Egyptology
Wal Thornhill – Physics/Astronomy
Peter Warlow – Physics
Irving Wolfe – Psychology of
Catastrophe
PRODUCTION
Val Pearce
MEMBERSHIP & ENQUIRIES
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