ASIN: B011YC01VU
Publisher: Franck Tamdhu
Pages: 286
Seatbelt fastened? ALL solar, lunar eclipses mentioned in chronicles presumed to be written before XVI century could not and did not take place at the very time and exact location reported to us by the ancient authors thereof who did like so much to stress the importance of event with some phenomena on the sky. Either the authors lied or were wrong, or both. Verdict: either the events took place some other time and some other place or there was nothing spectacular on the sky at that very moment. Voilà! "Astronomy vs History" crowns scores of years of meticulous and extensive research performed by the eminent mathematician Anatoly Fomenko and his colleagues. This research started actually as a unbelievable byproduct of russian-american competition in Moon exploration, when famous NASA scientist Robert Newton discovered a very strange phenomenon in lunar mechanics. This book is also the ...
