Beyond Velikovsky: The History of a Public Controversy

By Henry H. Bauer

Book Overview

Since the appearance in 1950 of Worlds in Collision, Immanuel Velikovsky's radical theories of planetary physics have been the center of controversy. Beyond Velikovsky presents a detailed analysis of the entire Velikovsky affair, conclusively resolves the major misunderstandings and primary arguments between opposing camps, and leads us beyond to a more complete understanding of the scientific process itself. Book jacket.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025201104X
• ISBN13: 9780252011047
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

From the author of the Myth of the Scientific Method...

I suspect Velikovsky biggest critics and analysts love to hate him. Anyway, I'm a big fan of Bauher. I have been for years. Velikovsky, alas, is an impossible-to-love jack-*ss.