- Mass Market Paperback
- Publisher: Pocket Books (Mm); Reissue edition (March 1977)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0671554646
- ISBN-13: 978-0671554644
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.4 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 68 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #526,437 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Among general non-fiction, Worlds in Collision was being outsold by only one book - the Bible. The epicenter of a literary earthquake --N. Y. Times Book Review
It is more fascinating reading than anything to be found on any fiction table. It is absolutely original and convincing --Pittsburgh Press
This book has literally shaken the thinking world to its foundations. Not since Darwin's Origin of Species has there been advanced an idea so original, controversial, and stupendous in its implications --Miami Herald --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
It is more fascinating reading than anything to be found on any fiction table. It is absolutely original and convincing --Pittsburgh Press
This book has literally shaken the thinking world to its foundations. Not since Darwin's Origin of Species has there been advanced an idea so original, controversial, and stupendous in its implications --Miami Herald --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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With this book Immanuel Velikovsky first presented the revolutionary results of his 10-year-long interdisciplinary research to the public - and caused an uproar that is still going on today.
Worlds in Collision - written in a brilliant, easily understandable and entertaining style and full to the brim with precise information - can be considered one of the most important and most challenging books in the history of science. Not without reason was this book found open on Einstein's desk after his death.
For all those who have ever wondered about the evolution of the earth, the history of mankind, traditions, religions, mythology or just the world as it is today, Worlds in Collision is an absolute MUST-READ! --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Bad science, Bad history,
By Archren (Long Beach, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Worlds in Collision (Hardcover)
It would take an introductory level physics textbook to fully critique all of the flaws in Velikovsky's astronomical reasoning in this book. Add to that his blatant historical methodological errors, and you get a really misleading book. His statement in the introduction that physical theories should be revamped to correspond to "fact" (that is, his interpretation of ancient myths and legends) is insulting. The fact is that while he claims many myths refer to the same catastrophic event, he makes no attempt to show that all these myths are refering to the same time period, and even less attempt to show any physical evidence that these events occured. Consider his statement that there were tremendous amounts if ash and dust suspended in the atmosphere for 40 years or so, only 3000 years ago. If that were true, there would be deposits of this ash and dust in glaciers, strata, ice caps, ocean beds, etc. None has ever been found. It is a ridiculous book all around, and actually quite tedious to read.
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This review is from: Worlds in Collision (Paperback)
I sometimes wonder why it is so hard to get books, such as this one and why it is not being reprinted again. This is certainly not a crackpot theory, but a theory that has since found much validation.Velikovsky back in 1950, when this book was published, proposes that the earth is subject to cometary impact from within the solar system and that these impacts has happened within recorded history. He does an excellent job at showing how impacts that devastated the earth and caused much upheaval has been recorded in many cultures across the planet, from Egypt, South America, Iceland, Mexico, America and many more. It is well documented and one has to admire the work gone into producing this book and getting all the source material to back up the theory, considering that it was written in a time when there was neither internet nor computers. There is much in this book that should be considered seriously, but which has received very little attention from the academic community. However some have dared to go there and some of what Velikovsky wrote has since been verified. An Astrophysicist Victor Clube wrote in the 1990'ies that the earth goes through cyclical cometary showers and that some major event happens 1 in 4 lifetimes. Likewise other people have built on Velikovsky's work and come out with an interesting cosmological account of the universe, namely the Electric Universe. Still it is on the outskirts of mainstream cosmology and one wonders why as it can potentially add much new understanding. Another recommended book that deals with the cyclical nature of things and much more is called "The Secret history of the World" by L.Knight-Jadczyk
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
an honest evolutionist,
By Rick M. Pilotte "Author, artist, and solver o... (Victoria BC Canada) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)
This review is from: Worlds in Collision (Paperback)
This book reads quite well and he is very genuine and forthright in his manner and appraisals of the evidence. He was clearly someone who had done his homework and showed up a lot of other theorists.He does however missidentify the wandering planet coming from Jupiter as Venus which unfortunatly no doubt branded him as a crackpot...But kudos for him in even daring such a conclusion based on his research into ancient legends. He got very close to what I suspect is the truth in this area...which is far better than any current day geologists would even dare. But clearly this would void Bode's law which showed that the planets have predetermined orbits. For Venus to have been a new planet would have meant every other planet would have had to jump one orbit outward. He suspected that the red spot on Jupiter may have been a spot where Venus was expulsed by; but it's more likely this was a spot in which the largest chunk of the exploded planet (now the asteroid belt) landed. His ideas on mutations have also been shown to be in error. But otherwise his information in all three of his major works (including Earth in Upheaval and Ages in Chaos) are great sources of honest appraisals of evidence which often conflicted with agendas held to by other theorists. He upstages geologists so well that his books provided me with break through clues to the recent past. Geologists, paleontologists, Evolutionists and archeologists all must hate this guy because he unwittingly(?) trashed their pet theories about ancient man and their recorded histories, and the earth's RECORDED cataclysmic past. He presented facts that are still hidden away today because of how they destroy present geologic theories. For example he shows just how wrong glaciation dating theories are. His books are a must read for any person seriously wanting a balanced perspective of earth theories, because todays branches of sciences are far too determined to force their agendas into their theories, to give REAL evidence it's due.
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