In the Beginning pdf

伊曼纽尔·维利科夫斯基（Emmanuel Velikovsky，1895 年 6 月 10 日 - 1979 年 11 月 17 日）是一位独立的俄罗斯学者，他撰写了许多重新解释古代历史事件的书籍，尤其是 1950 年出版的美国畅销书《碰撞世界》。他曾为成立巴勒斯坦耶路撒冷的希伯来大学，是一名精神病学家和精神分析学家。维利科夫斯基的工作经常被引用为伪科学的典型例子，并被用作划界问题的例子。他的书使用比较神话和古代文学资料（包括旧约）说地球在古代历史上与其他行星（主要是金星和火星）发生了灾难性的密切接触。在将维利科夫斯基置于包括汉斯·贝拉米、伊格内修斯·唐纳利和约翰·戈特利布·拉德洛夫在内的灾难理论家中时，英国天文学家维克多·克洛普和比尔·纳皮尔注意到了这一点。 “维里科夫斯基不是新的灾难理论家中的第一个。相反，他是一系列传统灾难理论家中的最后一个，这些理论可以追溯到中世纪，甚至可能更早。”维里科夫斯基认为电磁效应在行星运动中起着重要作用力学。他还提议修订古埃及、希腊、巴勒斯坦和古代近东其他文化的年表。修订后的年表旨在解释所谓的东地中海“黑暗时代”（公元前 1100-750 年），并将圣经历史与主流考古学和埃及年表相协调。维里科夫斯基的理论被学术界普遍忽视或强烈反对。尽管如此，他的书经常卖得很好，并在公众中获得了热烈的支持，并经常伴随着传统大学社区对维里科夫斯基的不公平待遇的指控。围绕他的作品及其接受度的争议通常被称为“维里科夫斯基事件”。

In the Beginning pdf 伊曼纽尔·维利科夫斯基

I have been asked by the compliers of the Velikovsky archive to briefly describe the present condition of Velikovsky’s unpublished manuscript entitled In the Beginning. As Velikovsky explains, parts of this volume were already complete in the 1940s and originally formed part of Worlds in Collision. The present manuscript also incorporates material written for a volume entitled The Test of Time, which dealt with the new information on the planets coming from the space probes, and contained frequent allusions to the earlier catastrophes; this work will probably never see publication. Other material included in this manuscript comes from Velikovsky’s lectures and other scattered writings. During the time that I worked for Velikovsky (1976-1978) one of my tasks was to complete the cataloguing of his library notes, mostly from the 1940s. The headings of the catalogue generally corresponded to the section headings in Worlds in Collision and In the Beginning. The completion of In the Beginning was a cooperative effort between Velikovsky and myself. After Velikovsky’s passing, when I returned to Princeton to work on his archive, I systematically moved the parts contributed by me into the notes apparatus and this is how this material appears in the unpublished manuscript.