Velikovsky wasn't even original. At least half of his 'cosmology' was taken from the "Eternal Ice" or "Weltislehre" delusion of one Hans Horbiger. Which, by the way, became the "house cosmology" of the Nazis in Germany. (See "The Morning Of the Magicians" by Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier).
Like Velikovsky, Horbiger was utterly incapable of telling the difference between a comet and a planet. (Hint, gents; one is a comparatively small dirty snowball, the other is a very large ball of rock with a molten core.)
One more example of why mystics make very poor scientists.
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Velikovsky wasn't even original. At least half of his 'cosmology' was taken from the "Eternal Ice" or "Weltislehre" delusion of one Hans Horbiger. Which, by the way, became the "house cosmology" of the Nazis in Germany. (See "The Morning Of the Magicians" by Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier).
Like Velikovsky, Horbiger was utterly incapable of telling the difference between a comet and a planet. (Hint, gents; one is a comparatively small dirty snowball, the other is a very large ball of rock with a molten core.)
One more example of why mystics make very poor scientists.
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