Astronomy
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The Diminishing Angle of the Ecliptic
Two years ago, in 2016, my latest book appeared: "The Solar Year Cross (Das Jahrkreuz) Jolts and gaps in historical chronology." There were friendly and affirmative answers, hardly some harsh criticism, as if…
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Labyrinths – Ritual to Overcome Trepidation
Inspired by a book by Hermann Kern 1. Trepidation By “trepidation” ancient astronomers understood a strange variation in the precession-cycle of the Earth, which at certain moments could unexpectedly increase and decrease. Greek…
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The Solar Year Cross
The Solar Year Cross (Das Jahrkreuz) Jolts and gaps in historical chronology ISBN 978-3-89180-154-3 with a foreword by Dr. Horst Friedrich Contents Introduction Chapter 1: The cross: All-Embracing Symbol of the Solar Year…
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Astronomical Dating of Proto-Historical Remains is Contradictory
Uwe Topper, Berlin · 2014 Whenever classical buildings or documents contain astronomical indications it is agreed to date their corresponding age reliably. There are mainly three ways to do so: Inclination of the…
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Eudoxus’ Star Catalogue – how old is it really?
Introduction There is an ever so often reappearing puzzle of time shift when ancient astronomical dates are confronted to modern retrocalculations. Ancient dates are far to low, and modern calcualtions for the described…
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Swift and the Martian Moons
How did Jonathan Swift get knowledge of the two tiny moons some 150 years before they were discovered by the means of a telescope? Berlin · 2007 Uwe Topper The two minute moons…
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The “Compendium” of Antonius Lilius
The “Compendium” of Antonius Lilius: Blueprint for the Calender Reform of Pope Gregory XIII Our hypothesis of precession jolts, proposed by Ilya Topper and the author in 2004, brings a new solution to…
