History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)

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Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.

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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03

Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.

Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19

Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.

Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09

There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.

For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.

Very Interesting.......2007-03-07

It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.

History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10

Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.

I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.

Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.

Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.

I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.

This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.

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The energy machine of Joseph Newman: An invention whose time has come
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The Time Machine: An Invention (Modern Library Classics)

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Important novel historically but now dull reading
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The Time Machine: An Invention (Modern Library Classics)
H.G. Wells
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Release Date: 2002-11-12

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When the intrepid Time Traveller finds himself in the year 802,701, he encounters a seemingly utopian society of evolved human beings but then unearths the dark secret that sets mankind on course toward its inevitable destruction. An insightful look into a distant, bleak, and disturbing future, The Time Machine goes beyond the reaches of science fiction to provide a strikingly relevant discussion of social progress, class struggle, and the human condition.

Hailed as a masterpiece of its genre, H. G. Wells’s famous novella about the perils of history and the hubris of modernity comes vividly alive in this remarkable reissue of a unique 1931 illustrated edition.

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Important novel historically but now dull reading.......2005-08-04

After 40 years and half a lifetime of being a sci-fi fan I finally got around to reading War of the Worlds and The Time Machine. I'd read a couple of Wells's other books that are less known, such as In the Days of the Comet, a very slow-paced novel without much action compared to the above two in which the earth becomes a peaceful Utopia after passing through the strange gases of a comet's tail. But I had never read his two greatest masterpieces. After I saw the recent Spielberg remake of War of the Worlds, I decided it was finally time to read them.

This book has a notable intro by LeGuin that is readable and informative, and I enjoyed that. The book itself, unfortunately, I found just so-so. I acknowledge Wells's importance and skill as an author, and his importance to the history of sci-fi, but to me this was just pretty dull stuff. I found the future society of the Eloi and the Morlocks to be valid in the sense that they are basically a reductio ad absurdum of present-day capitalist society, but that's about it. I understand Wells was fond of creating future dystopias that, as another reviewer here commented, stood Victorian society on its head, but as I said, this is still pretty thin gruel on which to build a novel. And Wells's style seems an incongruous medium for recounting a story almost a million years in the future, although in War of the Worlds I thought it worked out much better. Wells's somewhat formal and turgid Victorian prose seems an appropriate medium for describing the complete destruction of human society by the Martians.

In many ways, The Time Machine works better as a mood piece than as a science fiction novel, and the final part of the story in which the author travels millions of years into the future when the sun is dying and the human race has finally died out I found to be the most convincing part of the book. The dichotomous society of the Eloi and Morlocks, who represent the twilight of the human race, and were really no longer truly human, are gone, and the sun and earth are now in their twilight as well. This was the most evocative and poignant part of the whole book, and recalled the similar and wonderfully evocative ending in Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End, in which the human race also comes to a bittersweet ending by evolving into a strange communal intelligence, thereby leaving the limitations of individual corporeal minds behind.

So while I appreciate Wells's greatness and importance as a founder of the genre and think this is still an important and even epochal book in the history of the field, I find it more gravid with historical significance than readability at this point. Perhaps I'm jaded as so much of modern science fiction wouldn't have been written without it, especially many of the classic time machine stories that followed in the 20th century, but in comparison to a lot of the modern stuff, well, I have to say it's pretty dull sledding. So perhaps I'm just a cultural barbarian, but I can only give it 3 or 4 stars, primarily as I said, beause of its historical and literary significance.

Even Better Than "War of the Worlds".......2005-06-29

H.G. Wells had a knack for turning the Victorian worldview upside down. In "The War of the Worlds," Martian invaders assault imperial Britain and slaughter the inhabitants like bushmen in the Kalahari desert. In "The Time Machine," Wells sketched a world where capitalist social relations have led to grotesque evolutionary changes. Both books are throught-provoking and superbly written. They belong to the science fiction canon.

"The Time Machine" tells the story of a Londoner of 1895 who travels 800,000 years into the future, to an age when mankind has split into two separate species. One group, the spawn of capitalist ease and affluence, has been reduced to the mental and physical level of children; the other group has become feral after eons of industrial toil. Neither group is human any longer; culture and intelligence have died out forever. In fact, with the social tables turned, the "lower" orders now use their "betters" as a food source!

Wells' vision of human decline was subversive and eloquent, and offered a wry counterpoint to the Victorian cult of progress. The penultimate chapter -- in which the time traveler voyages 30 million years into the future, to an era when the sun is dying, humanity is long-extinct, and lichens have inherited the earth -- is almost heartbreaking. The book deserves six stars!

The Time Machine.......2005-05-16

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The novel I am reading is the Time Machine and it is about a psychologist who wants to travel through the future.He had a machine that was used to travel through the future. He called it the Time Machine and it was made up of crystal, nickel and part of ivory. it also included two levers to control the Time Machine. When he first travelled through the future he saw gigantic buildings and big trees. He also saw things that were different from where he come from. With the Time Machine, he can do anything incredible like slow down time.

I found the novel a little confusing with the words and it was hard to remember what I was reading. the novel appears to be a good one. what I didn't like about the book was the end of the book. I also had trouble with the vocabulary.When you understand the vocabulary, you will start to get into the book more. my favorite character is the Psychologist because he is the one and only Psychologist who controls the Time Machine. I would rate this book a three because the author didn't explain the book well enough. I would reccommend this book on the shelf to anyone who is interested in science.

The Time Machine.......2005-05-16

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One of the best books on the process of transformation
18th century technology
Timeless wisdom
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Men, Machines and Modern Times
Elting E. Morison
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One of the best books on the process of transformation.......2002-04-12

This is purely and simply one of the best books ever written on the process of innovation and the interaction of technology, culture, systems, and individual personalities. If you are interested in the process of transformation or the development of technological change then this book should be on your short list. It should be required reading at every senior military school and for anyone who is really interested in transforming the health system.

This slender volume is actually a series of lectures given between 1950 and 1966 at Cal Tech and was influenced by a 15 year process of dialogue in a regular monthly meeting on the subject of technology and society. It reflects the insights and wisdom of a lifetime of thought about people and technology.

For those who care about transforming military institutions the chapters on Lieutenant Sims' reform of naval gunnery in 1900 and on the building of the best steam warship in the world in 1868 are marvels of bureaucracy confronting technology.

Consider just a few insights from Morison:

"It is possible, if one sets aside the long-run social benefits, to look upon invention as a hostile act--a dislocation of existing schemes, a way of disturbing the comfortable bourgeois routines and calculations, a means of discharging the restlessness with arrangements and standards that arbitrarily limit." (p.9)

When Sims reports remarkable success with a new system of gunnery he has learned from an innovative British officer ((Percy Scott) there are three stages of response from Washington:

"At first there was no response. The reports were simply filed away and forgotten. Some indeed, it was later discovered to Sims's delight, were half eaten away by cockroaches,
"Second stage; It is never pleasant for any man's best work to be left unnoticed by superiors and it was an unpleasantness that Sims suffered extremely ill.
"Besides altering his tone, he took another step to be sure his views would receive attention, He sent copies of his reports to other officers in the fleet. Aware as a result that Sims's gunnery claims were being circulated and talked about, the men in Washington were then stirred to action. "p29

The response was first that our ships were as good as the British so the problem was with the men and that meant the officers were not doing their job. "most significant: continuous-aim fire was impossible. Experiments had revealed that five men at work on the elevating gear of a six-inch gun could not produce the power necessary to compensate for a roll of five degrees in ten seconds. These experiments and calculations demonstrated beyond peradventure or doubts that Scott's system of gunfire was not possible." p. 30, note this is about a system that was actually being used with amazingly more accurate results. Sims' reform was not a theory it was an existing fact, which the Navy simply denied.

As Morison notes "Only one difficulty is discoverable in these arguments: they were wrong at important points."
"In every way I find this second stage, the apparent resort to reason, the most entertaining and instructive in our investigation of the responses to innovation." p. 30

"Third stage: the rational period in the counterpoint between Sims and the Washington men was soon passed. It was followed by the third stage, that of name calling." p.30

As things got worse Simms took the ultimate risk "he, a lieutenant, took the extraordinary step of writing the President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, to inform him of the remarkable record of Scoot's ships, of the inadequacy of our own gunnery routines and records, and of the refusal of the Navy Department to act. Roosevelt, who always liked to respond to such appeals when he could, brought Sims back from China late in 1902 and installed him as Inspector of Target Practice, a post the naval officer held throughout the remaining six years of the Administration. And when he left, after many spirited encounters we cannot here investigate, he was universally acclaimed as 'the man who taught us how to shoot." p.31

Morison concludes "the deadlock between those who sought change and those who sought to retain things as they were was broken only by an appeal to superior force, a force removed from and unidentified with the mores, conventions, devices of the society. This seems to me a very important point; the naval society in 1900 broke down in its effort to accommodate itself to a new situation. The appeal to Roosevelt is documentation for Mahan's great generalisation that no military service should or can undertake to reform itself. It must seek assistance from outside. " p.38

Whatever field of change interests you this is a book well worth reading and thinking about.

18th century technology.......2002-01-20

A superb look at the wonderous and creative spirit that enabled the twentieth century to excel in engineering and science.
The events depicted in the book tell of an age where the industrial revolution was nacent and men brimmed with ideas on how to construct and create a new society for mankind. A fine read for anyone interested in the art of technology and of engineering history in the U.S.

Timeless wisdom.......2001-01-24

Elting Morison was a historian .. at MIT. I thought that curious, until I read his book. In a serious of beautifully wirtten historical essays, he traces the development and introduction of revolutionaly new processes or techiniques which profoundly changed the way things were done. But most interesting, and instructive, are the insights he provides as to what must be done to effectively introduce significant changes. For anyone who is frustrated by the time it takes to get things done, and who is interesting in learning how to shorten the process, this is a MUST read.

Superb historical vignettes/ insight on technological change.......1999-08-03

A must read if you work with people assimilating new technology. Through timeless and entertaining historical vignettes, Elting Morison describes the trials and tribulations of birthing sometimes revolutionary technologies from about 1830 (The Bessemer Process) through the early computer years (1966). He places man at the center of the technological universe struggling with the dilemna of assimilating new technologies while simultaneously trying to cling to past ways. Morison describes a continuous battle between entreprenuers and new adopters on the one hand and resistors on the other. He proposes that a process of more carefully testing and introducing new technologies may not only help soften the resistance to change, but also lead to less risky social adoption.

Vignettes include the Bessemer Steel Process, the revolutionary USS Wampanoag steamship, introduction of pasteurization and the early years of the computer.

Initially, I read this book in college but did not understand. Twenty years later, as a quality change person, I picked up the book and read through different eyes. It profoundly changed me.

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The Impact of Turn Around Time in Brazilian Navy Inventions

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This is a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A618683. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: This thesis analyzes how the operation of helicopters produced and supported by manufacturers in various countries affect Brazilian Navy repairable inventories levels and costs. The research is based on a scenario where the Brazilian Navy operates 68 helicopters, manufactured by contractors in USA, France, England and Italy, and the Brazilian Navy relies on these manufacturers for depot-level maintenance. We develop a simulation model representing the repair process of a group of critical helicopter components and measure the turn-around time (TAT). We also develop a readiness based model to find the optimal inventory level of the selected group of helicopter components to achieve a desired operational availability under these TATs. The results were applied to a spreadsheet model to find the differences in spare levels and associated costs necessary to operate the helicopter fleet. Our research concludes that the helicopter's source has a substantial impact on repairable inventories levels and costs. Furthermore, this impact is large enough to influence decisions in the Brazilian Navy acquisition process of equipment and weapons systems.

The Monotype Typesetting Machine: A Brief Description of Monotype Operation and a Short History of Its Invention and Development Specially Printed for Distribution at the New York Times National Book Fair 1937

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The Monotype Typesetting Machine: A Brief Description of Monotype Operation and a Short History of Its Invention and Development Specially Printed for Distribution at the New York Times National Book Fair 1937
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The Time Machine: An Invention
H. G. Wells
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The Time Machine: An Invention, a Critical Text of the 1895 London First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices. (book reviews): An article from: Utopian Studies

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The Time Machine: An Invention, a Critical Text of the 1895 London First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices. (book reviews): An article from: Utopian Studies
W. Warren Wagar
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Gene Burd
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This digital document is an article from Utopian Studies, published by Society for Utopian Studies on March 22, 2001. The length of the article is 1296 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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