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Exploring the Unknown

Great Mysteries Reexamined

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  • © 1979

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  1. Charles J. Cazeau

    1. State University of New York at Buffalo, Amherst, USA

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  2. Stuart D. Scott

    1. State University of New York at Buffalo, Amherst, USA

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Realms of Reason and Unreason

      • Charles J. Cazeau, Stuart D. Scott Jr.
      Pages 1-13

  3. Diffusion and Superdiffusion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-16
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    2. From Continent to Continent

      • Charles J. Cazeau, Stuart D. Scott Jr.
      Pages 17-28

    3. Stones, Suppositions, and Science

      • Charles J. Cazeau, Stuart D. Scott Jr.
      Pages 29-62

    4. Ancient Astronauts

      • Charles J. Cazeau, Stuart D. Scott Jr.
      Pages 63-67

    5. Ancient Astronauts

      • Charles J. Cazeau, Stuart D. Scott Jr.
      Pages 69-88

    6. The UFO Phenomenon

      • Charles J. Cazeau, Stuart D. Scott Jr.
      Pages 89-103

  4. Strange Stone Monuments

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-106
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    2. Stonehenge

      • Charles J. Cazeau, Stuart D. Scott Jr.
      Pages 107-126

    3. Pyramid

      • Charles J. Cazeau, Stuart D. Scott Jr.
      Pages 127-148

    4. Easter Island

      • Charles J. Cazeau, Stuart D. Scott Jr.
      Pages 149-168

  5. Marine Mysteries

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169
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    2. The Bermuda Triangle

      • Charles J. Cazeau, Stuart D. Scott Jr.
      Pages 171-186

    3. The Lost Continent of Atlantis

      • Charles J. Cazeau, Stuart D. Scott Jr.
      Pages 187-202

  6. Monsters, Stars, and Catastrophists

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-203
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    2. Monsters

      • Charles J. Cazeau, Stuart D. Scott Jr.
      Pages 205-223

    3. Astrology

      • Charles J. Cazeau, Stuart D. Scott Jr.
      Pages 225-237

    4. The Colliding Worlds of Velikovsky

      • Charles J. Cazeau, Stuart D. Scott Jr.
      Pages 239-258

    5. Noah’s Ark

      • Charles J. Cazeau, Stuart D. Scott Jr.
      Pages 259-268
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About this book

The purpose of this book is to explore some of those great mysteries of the earth that have captured the popular imagination, and especially those having their roots in our specialties of archaeology and geology. The average reader probably is unfamiliar with the earth sciences or the archaeological history of man. Nor does the average reader have the time and literary resources to verify all he or she reads. Our aim is to lend a helping hand by examining the evidence that surrounds such mysteries as the legend of Atlantis and the ruins of Stonehenge, and, as logically as we can, sift truth from falsehood and exagger­ ation. Early man found himself in a world of unimaginable mysteries: meteors streaking across a star-studded sky, the darkness beyond the campfire's glow, the sound and fury of a volcano's eruption. Our earliest ancestors were probably mysteries to themselves, and totally susceptible to the subjectivity of their world. Fantasies may have been as much a formative influence as toolmaking in the early development of culture. As human beings gathered knowledge and understanding of their surroundings, old mysteries vanished, only to be replaced by others because so much was not understood.

Authors and Affiliations

  • State University of New York at Buffalo, Amherst, USA

    Charles J. Cazeau, Stuart D. Scott

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Exploring the Unknown

  • Book Subtitle: Great Mysteries Reexamined

  • Authors: Charles J. Cazeau, Stuart D. Scott

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3533-7

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Plenum Press, New York 1979

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-3535-1Published: 19 March 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-3533-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 284

  • Topics: Anthropology, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary

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