History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)

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Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.

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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03

Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.

Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19

Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.

Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09

There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.

For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.

Very Interesting.......2007-03-07

It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.

History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10

Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.

I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.

Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.

Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.

I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.

This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.

What Makes Day and Night (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2)

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Very good early elementary science book

What Makes Day and Night (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2)
Franklyn M. Branley
Manufacturer: HarperTrophy
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ASIN: 0064450503

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`Accompanied by NASA photographs and Dorros's colorful, lively drawings, the text explains the Earth's rotation in clear and simple terms. An experiment using a lamp as the `sun' further clarifies the principles introduced.' —BL.

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Very good early elementary science book.......2007-01-03

If your child is interested in science, they will enjoy this book. It combines colorful drawings with actual photographs to explane the earth's rotation in a simple, understandable way. It is also a part of the Harcourt reading series for second grade, and a wonderful addition to your home library.

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Earth Rotation: Theory and Observation
Helmut Moritz
Manufacturer: Frederick Ungar
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By Day and By Night (Explore Your World)

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By Day and By Night (Explore Your World)
Valerie Guidoux
Manufacturer: Firefly Books
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ASIN: 1554070031

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Do fish sleep? How do cats see in the dark? Day and night are two different worlds to a child and this book explains both of them with lively text, colorful illustrations and imaginative activities. Included are:

Earth's rotation and the time of day
What the Earth would look like if it didn't rotate
24 hours of activity around the globe
Nocturnal animals and night vision
People at work at night.

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Explore Your World -- a captivating interactive series for young explorers.

This new series covers a wide variety of science, nature and technology topics in an innovative and interactive way. The books make use of a profusion of engaging line drawings and colorful illustrations along with delightful pullouts, pop-ups, fold-outs, transparency overlays, reveal wheels, books-within-books and more. Each page offers a surprise for young, curious readers. Lively captions featuring non-technical explanations accompany all the illustrations.

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A summay of articles about future shifting of earth's poles.

Pole Shift
John White
Manufacturer: Berkley
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Binding: Paperback

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A summay of articles about future shifting of earth's poles........1999-01-12

This book is a good summary of articles over a 20 - 30 year period ending in 1977 concerning the shifting of earth's rotational axis. Shifting of the poles axis becomes a popular topic every few years and is becoming even more popular with the coming of the new millennium. The author critiques various books and articles by many scientists both trained and lay scientists. The critiques are logical and thought provoking. He also reviews various psychics and their predictions in fairly through detail. This book is full of technical details and is not for the faint in heart who doesn't have somewhat a technical background. Those of us who do have a technical background will throughly enjoy it. Even though the book is out of print you can still find on book shelves. If the author is still around it would be good to have an up date.

Sun Up, Sun Down: The Story of Day and Night (Science Works)

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So entertaining he doesn't know he's learning

Sun Up, Sun Down: The Story of Day and Night (Science Works)
Jacqui Bailey
Manufacturer: Picture Window Books
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Binding: Library Binding

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So entertaining he doesn't know he's learning.......2004-11-13

We checked this book out at the library and my 3-1/2 year old loves this book almost as much as I do. It is a wonderful text that teaches how the sun moves across the sky, how shadows change, and how the earth orbits the sun. Well written with cute little conversation bits for fun. This is a bit longer than most of our bedtime stories but holds his interest and peaks his curiosity. The back of the book has instructions for making a sundial as well as other hands-on learning ideas.

This book would be great for a classroom as well.

Earth's Core: Dynamics, Structure, Rotation (Geodynamics Series)

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Earth's Core: Dynamics, Structure, Rotation (Geodynamics Series)

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Fascinating Travelogue (sans plot)
A great novel...but one that fades with pages.
Exactly what the name suggests
Life at the end of time
Made me think and made me wonder

The long afternoon of Earth
Brian Wilson Aldiss
Manufacturer: Nelson Doubleday
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Fascinating Travelogue (sans plot).......2006-10-28

Although written 20 years earlier, "The Long Afternoon of Earth" bears a strong resemblance to Aldiss' later "Helliconia" series. The main point of these books is to explore a world in which astronomical influences have drastically altered the climate. "Afternoon" is set billions of years in the Earth's future, when tidal forces have slowed Earth's rotation to the point where one side of the planet always faces the aging Sun, while the other side is in perpetual darkness. The book takes us on a tour of this world, to see how the creatures of Earth have adapted to this profound change.

In "Helliconia" and "Afternoon", characters are secondary. The book is not about them; they merely serve as tour guides, leading the reader on a trip through the various regions of the planet. In fact, Aldiss' protagonists tend to be unlikable. This keeps the readers and characters at arm's length, so the focus remains where it belongs, on the world itself. Gren, the main character in "Afternoon," is clever, but ignorant, selfish and brutish. You don't root for him, and you learn not to expect much of him. You simply follow him as he travels, encountering with him the strange and dangerous beauty of the latter day Earth.

Similarly, the plot is threadbare, almost an afterthought. The book is not about the story, either, and at times that can be frustrating. For example, early in the book, several humans, as part of a rite of passage in old age, hitch a ride on a "traverser" (a mile-long spider-like vegetable) from Earth through space to the Moon. There, they are tapped by others to lead an invasion of the home world. Clearly, you think, this is "The Story." However, the scenario is no sooner set up than it is abandoned. The invaders are not heard from again until 5 pages from the end of the book, when they show up briefly, accomplish nothing, then leave.

And that's okay. Even without a decent story or characters, this is still a fascinating book. I am awed by the sheer power of Aldiss' creativity in fleshing out this strange world. Many of the creatures, defense mechanisms, and lifecycles that Aldiss envisions are truly ingenious. On the day side, increased sunlight has propelled plant life to the dominant position in nature. Plants now fill most niches formerly filled by animals; they can move, eat, see, climb, think, even fly. The teeming jungles of the day side are savage, and the battle for existence fierce. Humans are the only true animals to have survived, albeit in a devolved, primitive state. It may sound far-fetched, but Aldiss does an admirable job of making the world not only plausible, but real.

As long as you approach "Long Afternoon of Earth" as a travelogue, and don't expect to find enduring characters or an intricate plot, it is an amazing trip through a bizarre world that happens to be our own. It is a well-crafted speculation on what Earth might be like in the distant future, and how life might adapt to such extreme circumstances. Even with its defects, I couldn't put it down. It is a trip well worth taking.

A great novel...but one that fades with pages........2006-06-22

The first seventy-five pages of this novel (roughly corresponding to the original installment of the short story sequence) are among the most inventive, spellbinding and mysterious you'll read in all contemporary literature. If you haven't read the book yet, it's worth paying more than this price to read the beginning of this book.

However I chose four, rather than five stars for one reason. The highly unique style and general mystery present early in the book, begins to evaporate over the remaining pages very quickly. Aldiss becomes far too explicative about the origins of the floral world and takes a progressively more pessimistic view about his audience's ability (and desire) to figure these things out for themselves. The ''sensawunda'' factor also becomes very extreme, to the point where few settings or organisms reappear after their initial introduction.

Doubly, most of the very compelling generalizations about the nature of the world described in the first part of the book, are systematically disproven in the later chapters. It turns out that the banyan doesn't cover all available sunlit space, that there are in fact remaining mammals apart from green men around and so on. This is profoundly disappointing for the reader who was quite taken with the original context the book created.

Another obvious (and often complained about) problem is that the humans -originally presented as devolved, degenerated shells of their earlier species- become progressively more intelligent and verbose as the novel progresses. The use of the Morel to explain this otherwise inexplicable evolution of cognitive power is unconvincing, as more characters than Gren achieve progressively enhanced analytical and communicative powers for no apparent reason. For example, early in the book, the longest speech the human characters had ever heard, is about three short sentences long and it was difficult for them to hold attention to it due to its length. Later, the human characters expound for paragraphs without difficulty in expression or comprehension. Often too, they are doing so whilst conveying a conceptual understanding about situations and events they could never possess were they indeed the creatures found in the opening of the novel.

The book is very similar to Hal Clement's Mission of Gravity in this respect. In that much like the creatures of Meskalin, they become progressively less alien not because we develop sympathies and connections to a common humanity...but because they start acting and talking increasingly like us.

This loss of mystique is one of the only reasons the book could be reasonably criticized in my view. Apart from it, it's among the most original and enchanting science fiction novels of the 1960s.

Exactly what the name suggests.......2004-05-17

This is one of those books to force the mind away from the everyday, the mundane, the what's-happening-today-in-Bongo Bongoland-and-what-are-we-doing-about-it that has our minds squeezed so tight we can't think further than the next daily broadcast of the world news and the next spoon-fed opinion from our favorite demigogue. The planet earth has a future that might, or mightn't include a fragile, two-legged creature who thinks he owns it all. In this book it includes him, but he doesn't own it.

The Long Afternoon of Earth is a lesson in perspective, in humility, in one of the many possible futures of mankind when all the wars have been fought and forgotten, when all the nations and political parties have had their sparks of glory and died. It's a world of no heroes, no cowards, no real signifance except the same one mankind faced in his deepest history: survival. There's a touch of wistfulness here, a touch of melancholy. But it's a good lever to pry your mind away from the mess your dog made on the livingroom floor, the mess your favorite politician made on the floor of your big ideas, the mess your nation made on the face of a planet that goes on and on, where human affairs and the centuries are an insignificant spark.

Read it.

Life at the end of time.......2002-03-20

Much of this book is stunning in its scope and originality. We are in the far distant future in the last days of the earth before the sun goes nova. The sun is so much hotter that all animal life has died and plants have taken over the earth making it an incredibly lush green jungle. All animal life has died but one species -- man -- and he is barely hanging on, literally in the branches of the great banyan tree that spans the continent. It's this view of man, not as lord of creation but as the last survivor of the animal kingdom that gives the book its power. That and the image of a green earth that is an incredibly dangerous place. It's a plant eat plant world. We follow the adventures of a boy as he discovers the world and we start to follow the adventures of some other humans that get accidentally taken to the moon by a mile long flying vegetable that is one of the stunningly creative ideas in the story. I gave the novel four stars instead of five because it is too short. With everything that happens you expect a grand ending and instead it feels rushed. The adventures on the moon are cut short and forgotten and the boy's adventures seem abruptly ended with a kind of conventional happy ending. Despite this one great flaw, this is a book well worth reading for it's sheer generosity of imagination. In it's own unique and crazy way, it's a classic.

Made me think and made me wonder.......2002-03-18

I first read this book when i was 15 years old and I was an instant Brian Aldiss fan. This book is kind of short, but it's one you want to read slowly so that you don't miss anything. And it can be hard to miss things since at times there is a lot going on. The end of the book is my favorite part because its really bizarre. If you like sci fi that's not all aliens and technical than I bet you'll like this book.

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Day and Night
David Bennett , and Rosalinda Kightley
Manufacturer: Bantam Books for Young Readers
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Continental Drift, Secular Motion of the Pole & Rotation of the Earth Sym. #32

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Continental Drift, Secular Motion of the Pole & Rotation of the Earth Sym. #32

Manufacturer: D. Reidel Publishing Company
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ASIN: 1114454699

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