Flight of a Tartar tribe
by De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859
Publication date 1896
Publisher New York, Maynard, Merrill & co
https://archive.org/details/flightoftartartr00dequ/page/n5/mode/2up
Revolt of the Tartars;
by De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859
https://archive.org/details/revoltoftartars00dequ/mode/2up
Publication date 1895
Publisher New York, Cincinnati [etc.] American book company
Recollections of Tartar steppes and their inhabitants
by Atkinson, Lucy, 1820-1863?
https://archive.org/details/recollectionsta00atkigoog/page/n26/mode/2up
A history of Persian literature under Tartar dominion : (A.D.1265-1502)
by Browne, Edward Granville, 1862-1926
https://archive.org/details/b31361742/page/n9/mode/2up
Publication date 1920
Topics Persian literature -- History and criticism, Persian literature -- Translations into English, Manuscripts, Persian -- Facsimiles, Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Specimens, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Manuscripts, Persian, Persian literature
Publisher Cambridge : The University Press
Constitutes the third volume of the author's Literary history of Persia, v.I-II of which were published at London by T. F. Unwin, 1902-06. The fourth and last volume, A history of Persian literature in modern times (A.D.1500-1924) appeared at Cambridge in 1924. The sequence of the volumes is indicated only by asterisks on the spine. cf. Prefaces to 3d and 4th vols
TARTAR PORCELAIN FIGURINES 1700-1800
FROM RUSSIA
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART COLLECTION
Psychrolousia, or, The history of cold bathing : both ancient and modern : in two parts
by Floyer, John, Sir, 1649-1734; Baynard, Edward, b. 1641
https://archive.org/details/psychrolousiaorh00floy/page/n8/mode/2up
Publication date 1732
Topics Baths, Cold, Hydrotherapy, Hydrotherapy, Cryotherapy
Publisher London : Printed for W. Innys and R. Manby
A QUAINT IDEA THAT CONTINUED TO BE USED ON PEOPLE HOUSED IN MODERN BEDLAMS RIGHT INTO THE 1960'S
The Sibylline Oracles Translated from the Best Greek Copies: And Compar'd ...
by John Floyer
Publication date 1713
Publisher printed by R. Bruges , for J. Nicholson
https://archive.org/details/TheSibyllineOraclesByFloyer/mode/2up
THE VINDICATION OF THE SIBYLLINE ORACLES 1713
https://archive.org/details/TheSibyllineOraclesTranslatedFromTheBestGreekCopies/page/n1/mode/2up
The Sibylline oracles
by Terry, Milton Spenser, 1840-1914, tr
https://archive.org/details/sibyllineoracle01terrgoog/page/n6/mode/2up
Publication date 1890
The Jewish Sibylline Oracles
by Hirsch, S. A.
Publication date 1890-07-01
Publisher The Jewish Quarterly Review
Collection jstor_jewiquarrevi; jstor_ejc
Contributor JSTOR
Language English
"The Jewish Sibylline Oracles" is an article from The Jewish Quarterly Review, Volume 2.
https://archive.org/details/cu31924051333890/page/n17/mode/2up
"As David and the Sibyls Say": A Sketch of the Sibyls and the Sibylline Oracles
by Mariana Monteiro , Alfred White
Publication date 1905
https://archive.org/details/asdavidandsibyl00whitgoog/page/n9/mode/2up
The sibylline oracles, books III-V
by Bate, Herbert, 1871-1941
https://archive.org/details/sibyllineoracles00bateiala/page/50/mode/2up
Publication date 1918
Topics Oracles
Publisher London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York, Macmillan
The mysteries of opium reveal'd
by Jones, John, 1645-1709
Publication date 1701
Topics Opium, Opium
Publisher London : R. Smith
https://archive.org/details/b30512438_0002/page/2/mode/2up
https://archive.org/details/66640260R.nlm.nih.gov/page/n9/mode/2up
https://archive.org/details/autobiographycon00dequ/page/n13/mode/2up
https://archive.org/details/b31360099_0001/page/n11/mode/2up
https://archive.org/details/b31360099_0002/page/n9/mode/2u
The opium habit, and "opium-mania cures"
by Chaillé, Stanford E. (Stanford Emerson), 1830-1911
Publication date 1876
Topics Opioid-Related Disorders, Opium
Publisher [New Orleans? : s.n.]
https://archive.org/details/9605216.nlm.nih.gov/mode/2up
https://archive.org/details/b20399844/page/n7/mode/2up
Opium smoking and opium eating, their treatment and cure
by Shearer, George, d. 1892; Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
Publication date 1881
https://archive.org/details/b21957769/mode/2up
Opiophagism, or, Psychology of opium eating
by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication date 1875
OPIOPHAGISM.
BY W. A. P. BROWNE,
Psychological Consultant, Crichton Institution, Dumfries;
Recently Medical Commissioner in Lunacy, Scotland.
“ This wonderful drug.”— Sir Robert Christison.
https://ia801305.us.archive.org/29/items/b22442947/b22442947.pdf
Opium eating : an autobiographical sketch
Publication date 1876
https://archive.org/details/opiumeatingautob00phil/page/n15/mode/2up
ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO UKRAINIAN BABA'S KNEW THIS
AND GAVE BABIES TINCTURE OF OPIUM AKA LAUDANUM
The treatment of spasmodic croup with opium
by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication date 1889
Topics Opium, therapeutic use
https://archive.org/details/b22311439/page/n2/mode/2up
Immanuel Velikovsky books - Worlds in Collision (1950), Earth in Upheaval (1955), Stargazers and Gravediggers (1983)
- by
- Immanuel Velikovsky
https://archive.org/details/vlkvsky/page/n1/mode/2up
Immanuel Velikovsky: Reconsidered.
An Inquiry Unit Into Velikovsky's Revision of Ancient History.
by ERIC
ERIC ED084215
Publication date 1973-10
Language English
https://archive.org/details/ERIC_ED084215/mode/2up
The ideas and theories of Immanuel Velikovsky are introduced to social studies teachers and a nine-week minicourse designed to investigate his theories is reported. The contradictions and inconsistencies that Velikovsky found between the events as recorded in original records of the ancient Middle East and the chronological timetable of this historical period as it is presently constructed, form the basis of this inquiry unit for high school students. Four general course objectives listed and discussed are: to familiarize students with the basic works and theories of Velikovsky; to examine some of his theories in light of historical, scientific, cultural, and religious evidence and cources; to review the chronology of ancient history as presently constructed and compare it with the revisions suggested by Velikovsky; and to review the reaction of scientific and literary critics to his published works and theories. Through use of both the expository and inquiry modes of learning, the unit emphasizes the students' efforts to identify and articulate the inconsistencies which present themselves, and to make decisions to reconcile these discrepancies. Learning activities and instructional materials are suggested; materials distributed in class are reproduced. (KSM)
THE HERMETIC CODE IN DNA
THE SACRED PRINCIPLES IN THE ORDERING OF THE UNIVERSE
MICHAEL HAYES
FORWARD COLIN WILSON
https://archive.org/details/thehermeticcodeindna/mode/2up
Contents
Foreword by Colin Wilson
Acknowledgments
A Note on Measurements
Introduction
1 The Sacred Constant: The “Jewel in the Crown”
2 A Different Way of Seeing
3 Music over Matter
4 The Electron and the Holy Ghost
5 Further Light
6 Live Music
7 Extraterrestrial DNA
8 Interstellar Genes and the Galactic Double Helix
9 The Hermetic Universe of Ancient Times
10 The Hierarchy of Dimensions
11 The Fate of the Universe
12 Inner Octaves
13 The Holographic Principle
14 Quantum Psychology: The “Nonlocal” Brain
15 QP2: The Universal Paradigm
16 The Shapeshifters
17 “Al-Chem”—the Egyptian Way
Notes
Bibliography
Geologists Work To Piece Together Earth’s Missing Memories
A team of geologists led by the University of Colorado Boulder is digging into what may be Earth's most famous case of geologic amnesia. Researchers have spotted that phenomenon, called the "Great Unconformity," at sites around North America, including in the Grand Canyon and at the base of Pikes Peak in Colorado.
A hiker walks along a road near Manitou Springs, Colorado, where an exposed outcrop shows a feature known as the "Great Unconformity" [Credit: Rebecca Flowers]
There lie sites of missing time, where relatively young rocks dating back about 550 million years sit right on top of much more ancient stone—in some cases more than 3 billion years old. In other words, a huge chunk of geologic history has vanished from in between.
"Researchers have long seen this as a fundamental boundary in geologic history," said Rebecca Flowers, an associate professor in the Department of Geological Sciences.
For a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, she and her colleagues drew on a technique known as "thermochronology" to take a fresh look at that fundamental boundary. They found that the Great Unconformity might not be the result of a single, catastrophic event in the planet's past like many scientists thought. Instead, a series of smaller calamities may have triggered many different unconformities around the world.
The results could help scientists better understand the flourishing of complex life that occurred not long after that tumult settled down, about 540 million years ago in an era called the "Cambrian Explosion." "There is a lot of the geological record that is missing," Flowers said. "But just because it's missing doesn't mean that this history is simple."
Pike's Peak
To study that less-than-simple history, Flowers and her colleagues turned to Pikes Peak. In a granite outcrop near the mountain town of Manitou Springs, geologists can find one of the clearest cases of the Great Unconformity.
Follow the strata down, and you will see young rocks—less than 510 million years old—and older "basement" rocks—dating back about 1 billion years. But you won't find anything in between.
Geologists know that something must have happened in the past to erase all that history, Flowers said. What that was and when exactly it happened, however, are still a mystery. "Only recently have we had the ability to reach far enough back in time to start filling in that gap," she said.
Rebecca Flowers stands near an outcrop on Pikes Peak in Colorado
[Credit: Rebecca Flowers]
Rocks, Flowers said, carry a kind of memory. By probing the particular atoms that have been locked up inside geologic samples, savvy scientists can create a heat-based history of those rocks—essentially, how hot or cold the sample was at various points in its lifetime.
Using that method, the researchers discovered that the Pikes Peak basement rocks were brought to the surface of the planet about 700 million years ago. For Flowers' team, that finding was key.
When all that rock rose to the surface, she explained, it would have suddenly been at the mercy of wind, snow and other extremes. And those elements could have led to erosion—a lot of erosion—essentially wiping the geologic history of the region clean. Imagine shaking an Etch-a-Sketch but on a monumental level.
"Earth is an active place," Flowers said. "There used to be a lot more rocks sitting on top of Mount Everest, for example. But they've been eroded away and transported elsewhere by streams."
Blame Rodinia
But what lifted those rocks up in the first place? Flowers and her colleagues think it has something to do with Rodinia. That's the name of a massive supercontinent—think Pangea, only much older—that formed at Earth's surface roughly 1 billion years ago.
"At the edges of Rodinia, where you have continents colliding, you'd see these mountain belts like the Himalayas begin to form," Flowers said. "That could have caused large amounts of erosion."
The researchers also realized something else: The Great Unconformity might not have been so great in the first place. As Rodinia crashed together then pulled apart over hundreds of millions of years, all that geologic activity may have caused many separate cases of memory loss around the world—not just one.
"We're left with a feature that looks similar across the world when, in fact, there may have been multiple great unconformities, plural," Flowers said. "We may need to change our language if we want to think about the Great Unconformity as being more complicated, forming at different times in different locations and for different reasons."
It's something to ponder the next time you go for a hike on Pikes Peak.
Author: Daniel Strain | Source: University of Colorado at Boulder [April 27, 2020]
New Findings Suggest Laws Of Nature Not As Constant As Previously Thought
Those looking forward to a day when science's Grand Unifying Theory of Everything could be worn on a t-shirt may have to wait a little longer as astrophysicists continue to find hints that one of the cosmological constants is not so constant after all.
Scientists examining the light from one of the furthermost quasars in the universe were astonished to find fluctuations in the electromagnetic force [Credit: Shutterstock]
In a paper published in prestigious journal Science Advances, scientists from UNSW Sydney reported that four new measurements of light emitted from a quasar 13 billion light years away reaffirm past studies that have measured tiny variations in the fine structure constant.
UNSW Science's Professor John Webb says the fine structure constant is a measure of electromagnetism - one of the four fundamental forces in nature (the others are gravity, weak nuclear force and strong nuclear force).
"The fine structure constant is the quantity that physicists use as a measure of the strength of the electromagnetic force," Professor Webb says. "It's a dimensionless number and it involves the speed of light, something called Planck's constant and the electron charge, and it's a ratio of those things. And it's the number that physicists use to measure the strength of the electromagnetic force."
The electromagnetic force keeps electrons whizzing around a nucleus in every atom of the universe - without it, all matter would fly apart. Up until recently, it was believed to be an unchanging force throughout time and space. But over the last two decades, Professor Webb has noticed anomalies in the fine structure constant whereby electromagnetic force measured in one particular direction of the universe seems ever so slightly different.
"We found a hint that that number of the fine structure constant was different in certain regions of the universe. Not just as a function of time, but actually also in direction in the universe, which is really quite odd if it's correct...but that's what we found."
Looking for Clues
Ever the sceptic, when Professor Webb first came across these early signs of slightly weaker and stronger measurements of the electromagnetic force, he thought it could be a fault of the equipment, or of his calculations or some other error that had led to the unusual readings. It was while looking at some of the most distant quasars - massive celestial bodies emitting exceptionally high energy - at the edges of the universe that these anomalies were first observed using the world's most powerful telescopes.
"The most distant quasars that we know of are about 12 to 13 billion light years from us," Professor Webb says. "So if you can study the light in detail from distant quasars, you're studying the properties of the universe as it was when it was in its infancy, only a billion years old. The universe then was very, very different. No galaxies existed, the early stars had formed but there was certainly not the same population of stars that we see today. And there were no planets."
He says that in the current study, the team looked at one such quasar that enabled them to probe back to when the universe was only a billion years old which had never been done before. The team made four measurements of the fine constant along the one line of sight to this quasar. Individually, the four measurements didn't provide any conclusive answer as to whether or not there were perceptible changes in the electromagnetic force. However, when combined with lots of other measurements between us and distant quasars made by other scientists and unrelated to this study, the differences in the fine structure constant became evident.
A weird Universe
"And it seems to be supporting this idea that there could be a directionality in the universe, which is very weird indeed," Professor Webb says. "So the universe may not be isotropic in its laws of physics - one that is the same, statistically, in all directions. But in fact, there could be some direction or preferred direction in the universe where the laws of physics change, but not in the perpendicular direction. In other words, the universe in some sense, has a dipole structure to it.
"In one particular direction, we can look back 12 billion light years and measure electromagnetism when the universe was very young. Putting all the data together, electromagnetism seems to gradually increase the further we look, while towards the opposite direction, it gradually decreases. In other directions in the cosmos, the fine structure constant remains just that - constant. These new very distant measurements have pushed our observations further than has ever been reached before."
In other words, in what was thought to be an arbitrarily random spread of galaxies, quasars, black holes, stars, gas clouds and planets - with life flourishing in at least one tiny niche of it - the universe suddenly appears to have the equivalent of a north and a south. Professor Webb is still open to the idea that somehow these measurements made at different stages using different technologies and from different locations on Earth are actually a massive coincidence.
"This is something that is taken very seriously and is regarded, quite correctly with scepticism, even by me, even though I did the first work on it with my students. But it's something you've got to test because it's possible we do live in a weird universe."
But adding to the side of the argument that says these findings are more than just coincidence, a team in the US working completely independently and unknown to Professor Webb's, made observations about X-rays that seemed to align with the idea that the universe has some sort of directionality.
"I didn't know anything about this paper until it appeared in the literature," he says. "And they're not testing the laws of physics, they're testing the properties, the X-ray properties of galaxies and clusters of galaxies and cosmological distances from Earth. They also found that the properties of the universe in this sense are not isotropic and there's a preferred direction. And lo and behold, their direction coincides with ours."
Life, the Universe and Everything
While still wanting to see more rigorous testing of ideas that electromagnetism may fluctuate in certain areas of the universe to give it a form of directionality, Professor Webb says if these findings continue to be confirmed, they may help explain why our universe is the way it is, and why there is life in it at all.
"For a long time, it has been thought that the laws of nature appear perfectly tuned to set the conditions for life to flourish. The strength of the electromagnetic force is one of those quantities. If it were only a few per cent different to the value we measure on Earth, the chemical evolution of the universe would be completely different and life may never have got going. It raises a tantalising question: does this 'Goldilocks' situation, where fundamental physical quantities like the fine structure constant are 'just right' to favour our existence, apply throughout the entire universe?"
VELIKOVSKY WAS RIGHT
If there is a directionality in the universe, Professor Webb argues, and if electromagnetism is shown to be very slightly different in certain regions of the cosmos, the most fundamental concepts underpinning much of modern physics will need revision.
"Our standard model of cosmology is based on an isotropic universe, one that is the same, statistically, in all directions," he says. "That standard model itself is built upon Einstein's theory of gravity, which itself explicitly assumes constancy of the laws of Nature. If such fundamental principles turn out to be only good approximations, the doors are open to some very exciting, new ideas in physics."
Professor Webb's team believe this is the first step towards a far larger study exploring many directions in the universe, using data coming from new instruments on the world's largest telescopes. New technologies are now emerging to provide higher quality data, and new artificial intelligence analysis methods will help to automate measurements and carry them out more rapidly and with greater precision.
Author: Lachlan Gilbert | Source: University of New South Wales [April 27, 2020]
Theory of Electromagnetism and Gravity
Modeling Earth as a Rotating Solenoid Coil
Greg Poole
Electrical Power Engineer
Pilot Hill, CA USA
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https://archive.org/details/TheoryOfElectromagnetismAndGravityJHEPGC/mode/2up
Abstract
Presented in this manuscript are conventional electrical engineering tools to model the earth as a rotating electrical machine. Calculations using known parameters of the earth and measured field data has resulted in new understanding of the earths electrical system and gyroscopic rotation. The material makeup of the inner earth is better understood based on derived permeability and permittivity constants. The planet has been modeled as simple coils and then as a parallel impedance circuit which has led to fundamental insight into planetary speed control and RLC combination for Schumann Resonance of 7.83Hz. Torque and Voltage Constants and the inverse Speed Constant are calculated using three methods and all compare favorably with Newtons Gravitational Constant. A helical resonator is referenced and Schumann’s Resonant ideal frequency calculated and compared with others idealism. A new theory of gravity based on particle velocity selector at the poles is postulated. Two equations are presented as the needed links between Faraday’s electromagnetism and Newtonian physics. Acceleration and Speed Control of earth is explained as a centripetal governor. A new equation for planetary attraction and the attraction of atomic matter is theorized. Rotation of the earths electrical coil is explained in terms of the Richardson effect. Electric power transfer from the sun to the planets is proposed via Flux Transfer Events. The impact of this evolving science of electromagnetic modeling of planets will be magnified as the theory is proven; and found to be useful for future generations of engineers and scientists who seek to discover our world and other planets.
Disappearance Of Animal Species Takes Mental, Cultural, SPIRITUAL And Material Toll On Humans
For thousands of years, indigenous hunting societies have subsisted on specific animals for their survival. How have these hunter-gatherers been affected when these animals migrate or go extinct?
Hunter-gatherer societies have had profoundly deep relationships with the animals they hunted, TAU researchers say. In this photo Bushman hunters in the Kalahari desert
[Credit: GettyImages]
To answer this and other questions, Tel Aviv University (TAU) researchers conducted a broad survey of several hunter-gatherer societies across history in a retrospective study published in Time and Mind. The study, led by Eyal Halfon and Prof. Ran Barkai of TAU's Department of Archeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures, sheds new light on the deep, multidimensional connection between humans and animals.
"There has been much discussion of the impact of people on the disappearance of animal species, mostly through hunting," explains Halfon. "But we flipped the issue to discover how the disappearance of animals -- either through extinction or migration -- has affected people."
The research reveals that these societies expressed a deep emotional and psychological connection with the animal species they hunted, especially after their disappearance. The study will help anthropologists and others understand the profound environmental changes taking place in our own lifetimes.
Halfon and Prof. Barkai conducted a survey of different historical periods and geographical locations, focusing on hunter-gatherer societies that hunted animals as the basis for their subsistence. They also investigated situations in which these animals became extinct or moved to more hospitable regions as a result of climate change.
"We found that humans reacted to the loss of the animal they hunted -- a significant partner in deep, varied and fundamental ways," Halfon says.
The new research explores hunter-gatherer societies throughout human history, from those dating back hundreds of thousands of years to modern-day societies that still function much the way prehistoric groups did. Ten case studies illustrate the deep connection -- existential, physical, spiritual and emotional -- between humans and animals they hunted.
"Many hunter-gatherer populations were based on one type of animal that provided many necessities such as food, clothing, tools and fuel," Prof. Barkai says. "For example, until 400,000 years ago prehistoric humans in Israel hunted elephants. Up to 40,000 years ago, residents of Northern Siberia hunted the woolly mammoth. When these animals disappeared from those areas, this had major ramifications for humans, who needed to respond and adapt to a new situation. Some had to completely change their way of life to survive."
According to the study, human groups adapted in different ways. Siberian residents seeking sustenance after the disappearance of mammoths migrated east and became the first settlers of Alaska and northern Canada. Cave dwellers in central Israel's Qesem Cave (excavated by Prof. Barkai) hunted fallow deer, far smaller than elephants, which required agility and social connections instead of robust physical strength. This necessitated far-reaching changes in their material and social culture and, subsequently, physical structure.
Halfon stresses the emotional reaction to an animal group's disappearance. "Humans felt deeply connected to the animals they hunted, considering them partners in nature, and appreciating them for the livelihood and sustenance they provided," he says. "We believe they never forgot these animals -- even long after they disappeared from the landscape."
An intriguing example of this kind of memory can be found in engravings from the Late Paleolithic period in Europe, which feature animals like mammoths and seals. Studies show that most of these depictions were created long after these two animals disappeared from the vicinity.
"These depictions reflect a simple human emotion we all know very well: longing," says Halfon. "Early humans remembered the animals that disappeared and perpetuated them, just like a poet who writes a song about his beloved who left him."
According to Prof. Barkai, another emotional response was a sense of responsibility -- even guilt. "Indigenous hunter-gatherer societies have been very careful to maintain clear rules about hunting. As a result, when an animal disappears, they ask: 'Did we behave properly? Is it angry and punishing us? What can we do to convince it to come back?'" he concludes. "Such a reaction has been exhibited by modern-day hunter-gatherer societies as well."
Source: American Friends of Tel Aviv University [April 27, 2020]
