Velikovsky Reconsidered
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Pense?e: Immanuel Velikovsky Reconsidered ("IVR") was a special series of ten issues of the magazine Pense?e produced to "encourage continuing critical analysis of all questions raised by Velikovsky's work", published between May 1972 and Winter 1974-75 by the Student Academic Freedom Forum, whose president was David N. Talbott, with the assistance and cooperation of Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon. Velikovsky -- "the man whose work was being examined 'objectively'" insinuated show more himself into the editing of the May 1972 issue, just as he had done earlier for the April 1967 "Velikovsky" issue of Yale Scientific Magazine. It achieved a circulation of between 10,000 - 20,000, with the first issue reprinted twice totalling 75,000 copies, and resulted in a book, Velikovsky Reconsidered containing selected articles. The "Immanuel Velikovsky Reconsidered" period also included sponsoring two three-day symposia which were attended by Dr. Velikovsky. In August 1972, the "Velikovsky Symposium" at Lewis and Clark College (who was also co-sponsor) convened 50 invited scholars, many from the ranks of Velikovsky's supporters, with 200 attendees. In June 1974, "Velikovsky and the Recent History of the Solar System" at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, convened 38 invited scholars with a generally higher and non-aligned profile than in 1972, including such mainstream scientists as David Morrison (Univ. of Hawaii), James Warwick (Univ. of Colorado), and Derek York (Univ. of Toronto), and registered over 350 attendees. --amazon.com/ show lessTags
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- Original publication date
- 1978
- First words
- The full story of the reception of Velikovsky's revolutionary world view will one day surely fill many volumes in the telling.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Such thoughts seem to lie at the center of man's earliest metaphysical speculations, and scientific revolutions may be only a means of returning to them.
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