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ISBN(s): 9782913621077, 2913621074
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Year: 2015
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Anatoly T. Fomenko
History:
Fiction
or Science?
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Who controls the past controls the future.
George Orwell
Iohannes Kepler
St. Augustine
ii
I
history: fiction or science?
A. T. Fomenko
Chronology 1
Introducing the problem. A criticism of the Scaligerian chronology.
Dating methods as offered by mathematical statistics. Eclipses and zodiacs.
A. T. Fomenko
Chronology 2
The dynastic parallelism method. Rome. Troy. Greece. The Bible. Chronological shifts.
Chronology 3
Astronomical methods as applied to chronology. Ptolemy's Almagest.
Tycho Brahe. Copernicus. The Egyptian zodiacs.
A. T. Fomenko, G. V. Nosovskiy
Chronology 4
Russia. Britain. Byzantium. Rome.
A. T. Fomenko, G. V. Nosovskiy
Chronology 5
Russia = Horde. Ottomans = Atamans. Europe. China. Japan. The Etruscans. Egypt. Scandinavia.
A. T. Fomenko, G. V. Nosovskiy
Chronology 6
The Horde-Ataman Empire. The Bible. The Reformation. America. Passover and the calendar.
A. T. Fomenko, G. V. Nosovskiy
Chronology 7
A reconstruction of global history. The Khans of Novgorod = The Habsburgs. Miscellaneous information.
The legacy of the Great Empire in the history and culture of Eurasia and America.
This seven volume edition is based on a number authors have discovered and researched, as well as
of our books that came out over the last couple of the new hypothetical reconstruction of global
years and were concerned with the subject in ques- history up until the XVIII century. Our previous
tion. All this giganticbody of material has been books on the subject of chronology were created in
revisedand categorized; finally, its current form the period of naissance and rather turbulent
does not contain any of the repetitions that are infancy of the new paradigm, full of complications
inevitable in the publication of separate books. and involved issues, which often resulted in the
All of this resulted in the inclusion of a great num- formulation of multi-optional hypotheses. The
ber of additional material in the current edition - present edition pioneers in formulating a consecu-
including previously unpublished data. The reader tive unified concept of the reconstruction of an-
shall find a systematic rendition of detailed criti- cient history - apparently supported by a truly
the descriptions of the methods offered by mathe- understandable that its elements may occasionally
matical statistics and natural sciences that the be in need of revision or elaboration.
Ill
Minimal surfaces and Plateau problem. Together with Dao Chong Thi
USA, American Mathematical Society, 1991.
Integrable Systems on Lie Algebras and Symmetric Spaces. Together with V. V. Trofimov
Gordon and Breach, 1987.
Tensor and Vector Analysis: Geometry, Mechanics and Physics. - Taylor and Francis, 1988.
Algorithmic and Computer Methods for Three-Manifolds. Together with S.V. Matveev
Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands, 1997.
Topological Modeling for Visualization. Together with T. L. Kunii. - Springer- Verlag, 1997.
The basic elements of differential geometry and topology. Together with S. P. Novikov
Kluwer Acad. Publishers, The Netherlands, 1990.
History:
Fiction
or Science?
CHRONOLOGY
1
2ND EDITION, REVISED
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Publisher's Note XX
Preface by A. T. Fomenko xxi
History of the New Chronology. By A. T. Fomenko and G. V. Nosovskiy xxix
Publisher's Advice xxxviii
3. The veracity of the Scaliger-Petavius chronology was questioned as early as the XVI century... 10
3.1. Who criticized Scaliger's chronology and where 10
.3.1.1. De Arcilla, Robert Baldauf, Jean Hardouin, Edwin lohnson,
Wilhelm Kammeyer 10
3.1.2. Sir Isaac Newton 1
of Scaligerian chronology 18
3.2. The questionable veracity of the Roman chronology and history.
Chapter 3 The new dating of the astronomical horoscope as described in the Apocalypse
By A. T. Fomenko and G. V. Nosovskiy
1. The proposed research method 134
2. General information about the Apocalypse and the time of its creation 135
3. Ursa Major and the throne 139
4. The events took place on the Isle of Patmos 141
5. The constellations of Cassiopeia and the throne were drawn
as Christ sitting on his throne in the Middle Ages 141
6. The Milky Way 142
7. Twenty-four sidereal hours and the constellation
of the North ern Crown 1 46
8. Leo, Taurus, Sagittarius, Pegasus 146
9. The daily rotation of the Northern Crown 148
10. Equine planetary images in mediaeval astronomy 148
1 1 Jupiter is in Sagittarius 1 50
1 ?.. Mars is beneath Perseus in either Gemini or Taurus L52
13. Mercury is in Libra 155
14. Saturn is in Scorpio 157
15. The Sun is in Virgo with the Moon underneath the feet
1 6. Verms is in T en „ 1 57
17. The astronomical dating of the Apocalypse by
the horoscope it contains 157
18. Our reconstruction of the initial content of the Apocalypse 161
Chapter 5 The methods of dating the ancient events offered by mathematical statistics
1 The local maxima method LS7_
Chapter 6 The construction of a global chronological map and the results of applying
mathematical procedures of dating to the Scaligerian version of the ancient history
the first letters of the name Jesus, were still used in several
European regions to denote "one" in recorded dates 343
13.4. How the chronological shift of 330 or 360 years could have occured 351
13.5. What Roman letters M, D, C as used in Roman dates stood for
originally, in the Middle Ages 351
13.5.1. General idea 351
13.5.2. Example: the date on the tomb of Empress Gisela 352
13.5.3. Another example: the date on the headstone of Emperor
Rudolf Habsburg 352
13.5.4. As recently as in the XVIII century, there was no unified
transcription system for mediaeval dates 354
13.5.5. Some datings contained in printed books and manuscripts of
the XV-XVII century will apparently have to be moved forwards
in time by at least fifty more years 355
13.6. Dating the foundation of Rome of Italy 356
13.7. Confusion between the foundation dates of Rome in Italy
13.8. Scaliger and the Council of Trent. Scaligerian chronology of the antiquity
and its introduction in the XVI-XVII century 358
13.9. Two phantom "ancient" reflections of Dionysius Petavius,
a mediaeval chronologist of the XVII century 359
14. A stratified structure of textbook of ancient history according to Scaliger 361
15. The coordination of a new astronomical dating with a dynastic parallel 366
16. A strange lapse in Scaligerian chronology near "the beginning
of the new era" . . 367
1.6. The amount of time required for the manufacture of one sheet
ot parchment 383
1.7. The "ancient" Roman Emperor Augustus was Christian, since he had worn
a mediaeval crown with a Christian cross 383
2. The "ancient" historian Tacitus and the well-known Renaissance writer
Poggio Bracciolini 386
3. The mediaeval Western European Christian cult and the "ancient" pagan
Bacchic celebrations ... 394
4. Petrarch (= Plutarch?) and the "Renaissance of antiquity" 410
4.1. How Petrarch created the legend of the glorious Italian Rome out of nothing 410
4.2. Petrarch's private correspondence with people considered
"ancient characters" nowadays 41 3
6.5. Moses, Aaron and their sister Virgin Mary on the pages of the Koran 458
6.6. The XII century as the apparent epoch of St. Mark's lifetime.
Annexes
2.1. (to chapter 2) Grammatical analysis of an eclipse description
I familiarized myself with the works of A. T. Fo- falsification of history on a planetary scale that I dis-
menko comparatively recently, and they impressed covered was the first one in what concerned the pro-
me greatly. What part of them struck me as the most portions and the ulterior motivation, as well as its his-
stunning? First and foremost, it was the intellectual ca- torical role. Let us call it the second falsification of the
pacity observable behind them. The authors reveal a same variety. It differs from the first in terms of per-
way of cogitating that manages to fuse austere logic taining to a different epoch. Its main subject is mod-
with dialectic flexibility; this is truly a rare occurrence ern history and whatever historical period can be
in the field of social studies. Reading the ceuvres of claimed as relevant to, and seen as fitting for, the pur-
A. T.Fomenko and his co-author G. V Nosovskiy- oc- poses of this falsification. The second falsification also
casionally several times over — was a veritable intel- differs from the first one in its primary means and
lectual delight for yours truly. They flabbergasted me methods, which shall be described below.
with their sheer disquisitive might as well as the re- One has to differentiate between the two kinds of
search results which, in my opinion, can by rights be falsification, the first one being the involuntary rou-
called the greatest discovery in contemporary histor- minor details that results from
tine falsification of
ical science - what A. T. Fomenko and his colleagues the mechanisms of gnosis and those of the actual de-
had learnt over the course of their research was the fact scription of historical events, or the entropy inherent
that the entire history of humanity up until the XVII in the framework of humanity's historical memory.
century is a forgery ofglobal proportions ("old history" The second is the extraordinary, premeditated and
in their terminology) - a falsification as deliberate as complex falsification that has distinct social causes.
it is universal. I shall be referring to this falsification Let us consider the former kind first. We shall dis-
as the first one. My sociological research of the great regard the period preceding the epoch of literacy and
evolutionary breakpoint demonstrated that a new, symbolic systems. The mnemonic means available
blatant, global and premeditated falsification was al- back then were less than meagre, which automati-
ready in full swing. Prior to becoming familiar with cally diminished the arsenal of the hypothetical fal-
the writings of Fomenko, I had already known that the We shall turn to the era of literacy instead. It
sifiers.
falsification of the past was a rather common phe- iscommon knowledge that historical events become
nomenon inherent in human existence. However, I immanetized in human language - and a statement
was neither aware of the scale of this fraud as de- uttered is a lie, as the old saying goes. We cannot
scribed by Fomenko and his fellow scholars, nor of its fathom the unfathomable. What we end up doing is
social type. My assumption had been that the blatant raking the vastness of history for tiny morsels of in-
xvi I history: fiction or science?
formation and adding some of our own narrative in of impartial falsification of historical events. This
order to produce wholesome and coherent textual stream also feeds on murky rivulets of countless liars
material. and swindlers.
The modern information technology does not af- The false model of history serves its function for
quo relies upon. Let
fect the principles that the status a certain while. However, humanity eventually enters
us introduce the concept of historical "atoms", or par- a period when this distorted representation loses ef-
ticles that aren't subject to further division. One may ficacy and stops serving its ends. This is where peo-
well calculate that the verbal description of a single ple are supposed to start searching for explanations
year of real history the way it really happened, in- and set out on their quest for a "truth". However, there
cluding all manner of events, no matter how minute, is the abstract scientific kind of truth, and the actual
would require the processing power of all the com- historical variety - that is to say, something that peo-
puters on the planet, with all people made computer ple regard, or will at some point start regarding as
operators. De facto, this technology serves as a pow- truth. The very word "truth" is confusing here. We
erful instrument of historical falsification. It allows for shall be on safer ground if we are to consider the ad-
the possibility of drowning a scientific approach to his- equacy of having certain concepts of the past for the
torical events in an ocean of meaningless facts. new needs that have manifested as a result of the his-
Furthermore, the description of actual historical torical process. These concepts stop being valid for
events is done by humans, and not perfect divine en- satisfying these needs. One becomes aware of the ne-
tities. People are brought up and educated in a cer- cessity to update our view of the past in accordance
tain way and have a certain social standing, as well as with whatever the present stipulates. This awareness
egotistical goals and aims of their very own. All of this is the kind of craving that can only be satisfied by a
affects the way the information is processed. Over the "bona fide rectification" of history, which has to occur
course of time, the overwhelming majority of events as a grandiose paradigm shift - moreover, it has to be
are wiped away into oblivion without leaving the mer- a large-scale organized operation; one that shall result
est trace. They are frequently not even realized as in an epochal falsification of the entire history of hu-
events. The people's attitude to the past begins to alter mankind. The issue at hand is by no means the falsi-
as past events gradually drift into an altogether dif- fication of individual observations of historical events,
ferent observational and interpretational context. but rather the revision of the entirety of historical
Evolutionary process discerns between two kinds records describing the events which cannot be ob-
of events - preliminal and superliminal. The former served as a principle since they belong to the past.
kind does not affect the general character of evolu- What we are talking about is not a mere change in the
tion; the latter one does. However, humans, includ- perception and interpretation of the same old exis-
ing specialists, fail to recognize the difference be- tential phenomena — it is the adaptation of the char-
tween the two. Everyone knows perfectly well how actery, which naturally used to refer to certain com-
much attention is poured over rather insignificant monplace realities at some point, to the exigencies of
individuals, such as kings and presidents, whereas people who have to live in an altogether different en-
the really important events often don't even get so much vironment. Trained specialists are a sine qua non for
as a passing reference. This affects the relations be- this - people whose activity shall have to be organ-
tween historical events so much that all sense of ized in such a manner that their collective output will
measure is often lost. Even if we are to suppose that result in the creation of a coordinated historical
all those who partake in the creation of historical Gestalt. What they really have to do is create exactly
records see veracity as their mission, the result of the kind of past that is needed for the present, mak-
their collective efforts is often the rendition of their ing use of whatever available material presents itself.
tem and the localizations of events wedded thereto). nor any categorical pontificating of any kind. The
The more recent and ongoing second global falsifi- general narrative scheme they employ is as follows:
cation of history is based on a system of erroneous the authors relate the consensual (textbook) histori-
pseudoscientific sociological concepts based upon cal concepts and then cite historical facts which either
ideology and aided greatly by the modern informa- fail to concur to said concepts, or contradict them ex-
tion manipulation technology. This is why I call the plicitly. Other authors who have noticed these in-
second falsification conceptual and informational, or consistencies are quoted. Then Fomenko and Nosov-
merely "conceptual" for brevity's sake. Fomenko's skiy put forth hypotheses which allow to find logically
works describe the technology of building a false correct solutions for the problems under study. They
model of human history which uses the art of ma- keep on emphasizing and reiterating that the issue at
nipulating the temporal and spatial coordinates of hand is all about hypotheses and not categorical state-
events. Many thousands of specialists in false histor- ments presented as the truth absolute. The readers are
ical models are already working on this second falsi- invited to take part in the solution of problems that
fication - their forte is the ability to misrepresent his- arise as a consequence of the consensual chronolog-
torical events while giving correct temporal and spa- ical concept of history. I am amazed by the horren-
tial coordinates and representing individual facts dous injustice of the numerous critics of Fomenko
veraciously and in full detail. The actual falsification and Nosovskiy, who obviously distort their ideas, ei-
is achieved via the selection of facts, their combina- ther failing to understand them completely or being
tion and interpretation, as well as the context of ide- altogether unfamiliar with their content. It is also
ological conceptions, propagandist texts that they are quite astounding that whenever a publication occurs
immersed into, etc. In order to describe the technol- that voices ideas that bear semblance to those of
ogy behind the second falsification with any degree Fomenko and Nosovskiy, but are a lot more tame and
of clarity at all, exhaustively and convincingly, one local, providing a lot less factual information, this
needs a well-developed scientific system of logistics publication is usually accepted with a great deal more
and methodology, as well as sociological theory. I call benevolence. I understand the psychological ground-
such a system logical sociology; however, it is a thing work beneath this - Fomenko and Nosovskiy have
of the future, which means that the second falsifica- performed a great scientific feat of epochal significance,
tion of history shall continue in its present manner, one that affects the sentiments and interests of too
with as much ease and impunity as the first. Tens and many people. Acknowledging this feat as such, or at
hundreds of years hence, a number of solitary re- the very least the mere fact of its creative relevance,
searchers shall "excavate" the so-called "modern his- obligates one to actions that are apparently beyond
tory" in very much the same manner as Fomenko these people due to their incapacity and immaturity.
(and his predecessors, including N. A. Morozov) have The trouble with Fomenko and Nosovskiy is that they
treated "old history". have reached out too far and dealt the dominating his-
I would like to conclude with an observation con- torical discourse too heavy a blow.
cerning the exceptional scientific scrupulousness of
the works of A. Fomenko and G. Nosovskiy. I have ex- Alexander Zinoviev.
amined them from exactly this position many a time, 10 October 1999,
and I have neither found a single ipse dixit statement, 19 April 2001.
Alexander Zinoviev, Professor of the Moscow State University, logician, sociologist, writer, member of the Finnish, Bavarian and Italian
Academy of Sciences, Academy of Polite Letters and several others. Laureate of the 1982 Alexis Tocqueville prize for soci-
the Russian
ology and the "Best Sociology Essay of 1979" prize, as well as a large number of European and international prizes for literature.
Honorary citizen of several French and Italian towns and cities. The works of A. A. Zinoviev are published in more than 20 languages
and considered international bestsellers. He reads lectures on sociology in many European and American universities.
Foreword by A. Shiryaev (1990)
to the first edition of A. T. Fomenko's Methods of statistical analysis
of narrative texts and their applications to chronology, 1990.
Based on research materials of 1973-1988
The methods of applied statistics affect a wide of non-correlating origins (the ones we can logically
range of scientific paradigms today, including the re- refer to as "independent"). It is well understood that
search of a great variety of texts. We use the word problems of this kind are exceptionally complex, and
"text" to refer to sequences of diverse signals here, thus new empirico-statistical identification methods
such as the lengthy codes one finds in genetics, graph- deserve full recognition for their ability to comple-
ical representations of this kind or the other that can ment classical approaches to actual research (in source
be encoded and represented in a textual form and studies, for instance).
actual narrative texts, such as historical chronicles, The present book by A. T. Fomenko, Professor of
original sources, documents etc. Pure Mathematics, is primarily oriented at the devel-
One of the key objectives we have here is learning opment of said methods as applied to identifying and
to identify dependent texts, by which we mean texts dating dependent and independent texts (in relation
possessing some degree of affinity between them - to the texts that possess veritable datings a priori).
similarities in their nature or history, for instance. The author of the book suggests a new approach
We may regard the recognition problem as an exam- to the recognition of dependent and independent
ple, where one is confronted with the task of finding narrative (historical) texts based on a number of
the visual representation that bears the greatest re- models he had constructed and trends discovered
semblance to the given prototype. The subject of long with the aid of empirico-statistical methods and as a
signal sequence research emphasizes the ability to result of extensive statistical experimentation with
find uniform subsequences and their joining points. varying quantitative characteristics of actual texts
All of the above bears equal relevance to solving the such as chronicles, original sources etc. The verifica-
classical change-point problem, for instance, which is tion of these models (statistical hypotheses) by sub-
of vital importance to mathematical statistics and the sistent chronicle material confirmed their efficacy and
statistics of stochastic processes. allowed us to suggest new methods of dating texts, or,
In application to narrative text studies and their rather, the events they describe.
needs, the problem of differentiating between de- The approach suggested by A. T. Fomenko is rather
pendent and independent texts (such as chronicles) unorthodox and requires the reader to possess a cer-
can be formulated as that of tracing out the texts that tain degree of attentiveness and diligence in order to
hail back to a common original source (the ones that become accustomed with his innovative logical con-
can logically be referred to as "dependent"), or those structions which may be perceived as uncanny; how-
xix
ever, one has to note that the author's principal ideas torical events. One has to differ clearly here between
are perfectly rational from the point of view of con- the primary statistical result achieved by the book,
temporary mathematical statistics and fit into the namely, defining the layer structure of the global
cognitive paradigm of experts in applied statistics chronological map and its representation as a "sum"
with the utmost ease. of four layers, and the plethora of available interpre-
The scientific results obtained by the author are tations. Interpreting the results and building hy-
most remarkable indeed, and what we witness today potheses is well beyond the scope of precise mathe-
can already be referred to as the rather sudden evolve - matical knowledge, so the author urges us to be ex-
ment of a whole new scientific division in applied sta- tremely careful with the conclusions relating to a
tistics that is definitely of interest to us. All of the re- potential revision of the "static chronology of ancient
sults in question were educed from a tremendous body history".The author repeatedly insists on the neces-
of work performed by the author with the assistance sity of and separating verified facts
critical analysis
of his fellow academicians, most of them specializing from their interpretations and various hypotheses.
in mathematical statistics and its applications. The concept offered by A. T. Fomenko is novel
Seeing as how the book relates to problems that and somewhat startling, and by all means deserves a
concern several scientific disciplines, one is confronted meticulous study.
with the necessity of finding points of contact be- The book is written in conformance to the most
tween experts working in different areas. A wide num- demanding scientific standards and is an unprece-
ber of terms and definitions common for scholars of dented phenomenon in the area of international sci-
one discipline may need to be explicitly translated for entific literature on applied mathematical statistics,
scientists of a different specialization and orientation. so no reader shall be left indifferent. It also offers us
This is to be borne in mind by the representatives of a glimpse of the rather charming personality of its au-
both natural sciences and humanities among the read- thor, a mathematician and a history scholar.
ers of this book. However, said miscommunications One hopes that the reader studies the book in its
are common and are easily overcome by any mixed entirety with undiminished attention after the pe-
collective of scientists collaborating on the solution of rusal of the first couple of pages and, at the very least,
a particular problem. One may hope that the poten- becomes familiar with a fascinating scientific prob-
tial readers may prove this very collective that will lem, or maybe even joins the research in this new and
carry on with the research commenced by an emi- promising field of science.
nent professional mathematician.
In addition to the development of new empirico- A. N. Shiryaev,
statistical methods as applied to the dating of events, President of the International Bernoulli
the present book contains a number of applications Society for Mathematical Statistics and
to the problem of validating the chronology of his- Probability Theory in 1989-1991.
A. N. Shiryaev, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, Head of the Probability
Theory Studies Department of the Moscow State University Department of Mathematics and Mechanics, Head of the Probability Theory
and Mathematical Statistics Department of the V. A. Steklov Mathematics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
xx I
history: fiction or science?
Publisher's Note
History: Fiction or Science? is the most explosive trac-
Jesus Christ was born in 1152 a.d. and crucified in 1185 a.d.
The Old Testament refers to mediaeval events.
Apocalypse was written after 1486.
The materials contained in this book correspond to plicable leap on the interval of VIII-X century a.d. This
the research that was started in 1973. leap cannot be explained by conventional gravitational
One might wonder why we should want to revise theory, and is improbable to the extent of making
the chronology of ancient history today and base our Robert Newton invent mysterious "extra-gravitational
revision on new empirico-statistical methods. It would forces" in the Earth-Moon system that suspiciously re-
be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI- fuse to manifest in any other way.
XVII century chronology was considered to be a subdi- This inexplicable effect attracted the professional in-
vision of mathematics, prior to having gradually trans- terest of the mathematician in me. The verification of
formed into a field of historical studies considered R. Newton'swork showed that his computations con-
complete in general, and only requiring minor even- formed to the highest scientific standards and con-
tual clarifications leaving the actual edifice of chronol- tainedno errors. This made the gap in the diagram
ogy intact. And yet we discover that the contemporary even more enigmatic. A prolonged pondering of this
official version of the chronology of ancient history is topic led me to the idea of checking the exactitude of
full of prodigious contradictions and inconsistencies datings of the ancient eclipses that the D "
parameter
that deserve an attempt of partial clarification and rec- computations were based upon since they implicitly af-
tification based on the methods of modern statistics fected the result. This idea turned out to have been
at the very least. unprecedented for the scientists that had dealt with
One often hears the question about what could pos- the problem previously. Robert Newton himself, an
sibly motivate a mathematician into wanting to study eminent expert in the field of astronavigation and the-
a seemingly historical problem. The answer is as fol- oretical dynamics of natural and artificial celestial bod-
lows. My primary interests are those of a professional ies, trusted the ancient historical dates completely and
mathematician; they are thus rather distant from his- attempted to explain the leap in the behaviour of pa-
torical and chronological issues. However, in the early rameter D " from within his professional paradigm.
70s, namely, in 1972-1973, 1 had to deal with the dates That is to say, without the merest hint of the very idea
of ancient eclipses during my studies of one of the key of questioning ancient chronology. I was more fortu-
problems in celestial mechanics (see Chroni, Chapter 2 nate in that respect: I found out that N. A. Morozov,
for more details). It had to do with computing the so- a renowned Russian scientist and encyclopaedist, had
called coefficient D "
in the Theory of Lunar Motion. analyzed the datings of ancient eclipses and claimed
The parameter characterizes acceleration and is com- most of them to be in need of revision. This happened
puted as a time function on a large historical interval. as early as the beginning of the XX century. He offered
The computations were performed by Robert Newton, new datings for a large number of eclipses that were
a contemporary American astronomer and astro- considerably more recent. Having obtained his tables,
physicist. Upon their completion, he had made the un- I repeated Newton's calculations using Morozov's dates
expected discovery of parameter D "
behaving in the in lieu of the consensual ones as input data. I was
most peculiar manner, namely, performing an inex- amazed to discover that the D "
graph altered instantly
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