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Immanuel Velikovsky — Author (1895–1979)
Immanuel Velikovsky (1895–1979) argued in Worlds in Collision (1950) that Venus and other bodies caused historical catastrophes. The scientific community rejected the physics. He remains the ancestor of much popular catastrophism. Deceased — dossier only.
Thesis. Worlds in Collision: recent planetary near-misses reshaped myth and geology.
Bibliography (public titles). Worlds in Collision; Ages in Chaos; Earth in Upheaval.