Worlds in collision.
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New York :
Macmillan,
1950.
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Table of Contents:
- In an immense universe ; The celestial harmony ; The origin of the planetary system ; The origin of the comets
- The planet Earth
- Ice ages ; The mammoths ; The ice age and the antiquity of man ; The world ages ; The sun ages
- pt. I. Venus. The most incredible story ; On the other side of the ocean
- Fifty-two years earlier ; The red world ; The hail of stones ; Naphtha ; The darkness ; Earthquake ; "13"
- The hurricane ; The tide ; The battle in the sky ; The comet of Typhon ; The spark ; The collapsed sky
- Boiling earth and sea ; Mount Sinai ; Theophany ; Emperor Yahou
- East and West ; The reversed polarity of the Earth ; The quarters of the world displaced ; Changes in the times and the seasons
- The shadow of death ; Ambrosia ; Rivers of milks and honey ; Jericho
- Stones suspended in the air ; Phaëton ; Atlantis ; The floods of Deucalion and Ogyges
- 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
- Pallas Athene ; Zeus and Athene ; Worship of the Morning Star ; The sacred cow ; Baal Zevuv (Beelzebub) ; Venus in the folklore of the Indians
- The synodical year of Venus ; Venus moves irregularly ; Venus becomes the Morning Star
- pt. II. Mars. Amos ; The year 747 ; Isaiah ; The Argive tyrants ; Again Isaiah ; Maimonides and Spinoza, the exegetes
- The year 687 ; Ignis e Coelo ; March 23rd ; The worship of Mars ; Mars moves the Earth from its pivot
- What caused Venus and Mars to shift their orbits? ; When was the Iliad created? ; Huitzilopochtli ; Tao ; Yuddha ; The Bundahis ; Lucifer cut down
- Sword-god ; Fenris-wolf ; Sword-time, wolf-time ; Synodos ; The stormer of the walls
- The steeds of Mars ; The terrible ones ; Samples from the planets ; The archangels ; Planet worship in Judea in the seventh century
- A collective amnesia ; Folklore ; Of "preexisting ideas" in the souls of peoples ; The pageants of the sky ; The subjective interpretation of events and their authenticity
- Poles uprooted ; Temples and obelisks ; The shadow clock ; The water clock ; A hemisphere travels southward
- The year of 360 days ; Disarranged months ; Years of ten months ; The reforming of the calendar
- 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
- Facing many problems.