Public Library (contents & extracts ) :
"Worlds in Collision" by Immanuel Velikovsky
Author's Preface
PROLOGUE
Chapter I
In an Immense Universe. The Celestial Harmony. The Origin of the Planetary System. The Origin of the Comets
Chapter II
The Planet Earth. Ice Ages. The Mammoths. The Ice Age and the Antiquity of Man. The World Ages. The Sun Ages
PART I
VENUS
Chapter I
The Most Incredible Story. On the Other Side of the Ocean
Chapter II
Fifty-Two Years Earlier. The Red World. The Hail of Stones. Naphtha. The Darkness. Earthquake. "13"
Chapter III
The Hurricane. The Tide. The Battle in the Sky. The Comet of Typhon. The Spark. The Collapsed Sky
Chapter IV
Boiling Earth and Sea. Mount Sinai. Theophany. Emperor Yahou
Chapter V
East and West. The Reversed Polarity of the Earth. The Quarters of the World Displaced. Changes in the Times and the Seasons
Chapter VI
The Shadow of Death. Ambrosia. Rivers of Milk and Honey. Jericho
Chapter VII
Stones Suspended in the Air. Phaeton. Atlantis. The Floods of Deucalion and Ogyges
Chapter VIII
The Fifty-Two-Year Period. Jubilee. The Birth of Venus. The Blazing Star. The Four-Planet System. One of the Planets is a Comet. The Comet Venus
Chapter IX
Pallas Athene. Zeus and Athene. Worship of the Morning Star. The Sacred Cow. Baal Zevuv (Beelzebub). Venus in the Folklore of the Indians
Chapter X
The Synodical Year of Venus. Venus Moves Irregularly. Venus Becomes the Morning Star
PART II
MARS
Chapter I
Amos. The Year —747. Isaiah. The Argive Tyrants. Again Isaiah. Maimonides and Spinoza, the Exegetes
Chapter II
The Year —687. Ignis e Coelo. March 23rd. The Worship of Mars. Mars Moves the Earth from Its Pivot
Chapter III
What Caused Venus and Mars to Shift Their Orbits? When Was the Iliad Created? Huitzilopochtli. Tao. Yuddha. The Bundahis. Lucifer Cut Down
Chapter IV
Sword-God. Fenris-Wolf. Sword-Time, Wolf-Time. Synodos. The Stormer of the Walls
Chapter V
The Steeds of Mars. The Terrible Ones. Samples from the Planets. The Archangels. Planet Worship in Judea in the Seventh Century
Chapter VI
A Collective Amnesia. Folklore. Of " Pre-existing Ideas " in the Souls of Peoples. The Pageants of the Sky. The Subjective Interpretation of the Events and Their Authenticity
Chapter VII
Poles Uprooted. Temples and Obelisks. The Shadow Clock. The Water Clock. A Hemisphere Travels Southward
Chapter VIII
The Year of 360 Days. Disarranged Months. Years of Ten Months. The Reforming of the Calendar
Chapter IX
The Moon and Its Craters. The Planet Mars. The Atmosphere of Mars. The Thermal Balance of Mars. The Gases of Venus. The Thermal Balance of Venus. The End
EPILOGUE
Facing Many Problems
Index