The Pseudoscience Wars - Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe (Paperback)

Properly analyzed, the collective mythological and religious writings of humanity reveal that around 1500 BC, a comet swept perilously close to Earth, triggering widespread natural disasters and threatening the destruction of all life before settling into solar orbit as Venus, our nearest planetary neighbour. Sound implausible? Well, from 1950 until the late 1970s, a huge number of people begged to differ, as they devoured Immanuel Velikovskya's major best-seller, 'Worlds in Collision', insisting that perhaps this polymathic thinker held the key to a new science and a new history. Here, Michael D. Gordin resurrects the largely forgotten figure of Velikovsky and uses his strange career and surprisingly influential writings to explore the changing definitions of the line that separates legitimate scientific inquiry from what is deemed bunk, and to show how vital this question remains to us today.

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2013
First published:	August 2013
Authors:	Michael D. Gordin
Dimensions:	230 x 154 x 2mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	304
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-10172-9
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Philosophy of science
LSN:	0-226-10172-X
Barcode:	9780226101729

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