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Description : Title: Ages in Chaos Author: Immanuel Velikovsky - Immanuel Velikovsky was a Russian-Jewish psychiatrist and independent scholar, best known as the author of a number of controversial books reinterpreting the events of ancient history, in particular the US bestseller Worlds in Collision, published in 1950. Earlier, he played a role in the founding of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, and was a respected psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. His books use comparative mythology and ancient literary sources (including the Old Testament) to argue that Earth suffered catastrophic close contacts with other planets (principally Venus and Mars) in ancient times. In positioning Velikovsky among catastrophists including Hans Bellamy, Ignatius Donnelly, and Johann Gottlieb Radlof, the British astronomers Victor Clube and Bill Napier noted ... Velikovsky is not so much the first of the new catastrophists ..., he is the last in a line of traditional catastrophists going back to mediaeval times and probably earlier. Velikovsky argued that electromagnetic effects play an important role in celestial mechanics. He also proposed a revised chronology for ancient Egypt, Greece, Israel and other cultures of the ancient Near East. The revised chronology aimed at explaining the so-called dark age of the eastern Mediterranean (c. 1100-750 BC) and reconciling biblical history with mainstream archaeology and Egyptian chronology. In general, Velikovsky's theories have been ignored or vigorously rejected by the academic community. Nonetheless, his books often sold well and gained an enthusiastic support in lay circles, often fuelled by claims of unfair treatment for Velikovsky by orthodox academia. The controversy surrounding his work and its reception is often referred to as the Velikovsky affair (Courtesy of Wikipedia) Publisher: Doubleday & Co., Inc. City: Garden City, New York Year: 1952 Printing Information: Signed Edition Binding Style: Hardcover Pagination: xxiv/350 pages plus 9 unnumbered pages of extracts/summaries from reviews of Worlds in Collision Width: 6 Height: 8.5 Book Details: Ages in Chaos is a book by the controversial writer Immanuel Velikovsky, first published by Doubleday in 1952, which put forward a major revision of the history of the Ancient Near East, claiming that the histories of Ancient Egypt and Ancient Israel are five centuries out of step. He followed this with a number of other works where he attempted to complete his reconstruction of ancient history, collectively known as the Ages in Chaos series. Velikovsky's work has been harshly criticised, including even by some fellow chronological revisionists. Condition / Notes: This is volume I of this work. It bears the subtitle From the Exodus to King Akhnaton. This is a scarce author-signed edition of this work. Inscription by Velikovsky appears on half title page and reads (Illegible word) to / Doris and Frederick / Anderson / Im. Velikovsky / Nov. 20 (?) / Princeton. Anderson Farm address stamp appears twice on opposite blank preliminary page. Volume is bound in original black cloth with gilt lettering against blue background on spine and front cover. Book shows light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Volume has map endpapers. Pencil annotations can be seen on final blank page and page 157 exhibits foxing. Interior is otherwise clean and without markings. Illustrated with plates. Intact dust jacket displays minor chipping at head of spine panel and at lower outside corners of front and rear panels. For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $4.50
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