“Human history becomes more and more, a race between education and catastrophe.” – George Orwell, 1920, Outline of History
All solar, and lunar eclipses mentioned in chronicles presumed to be written before the 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 the event with some phenomena in 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 in the sky at that very moment. “Astronomy vs History” crowns scores of years of meticulous and extensive research performed by the eminent mathematician Anatoly Fomenko and his colleagues. Points to some non-trivial conclusions about world history.
Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2018
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What I appreciate the most about any of Mr. Fomenko’s work are the critical thinking skills and unemotional assessment of simple points of data that he connects in a logical/linear way to expose inconsistencies that have never been considered from a historical viewpoint in connection with one another. Through connecting the dots in this way, a completely new picture emerges, one that really makes a mess of the story we have previously been told. It is time we reassess the complete narrative. His work provides a sound cornerstone and a large part of the foundation for the rest of this project to be completed upon.
About the Author: Dr.Fomenko, Anatoly. Born in 1945. Full Member (Academician) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Full Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Full Member of the International Higher Education Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, Professor, Head of the Moscow State University Department of Mathematics and Mechanics. Solved the classical Plateau s Problem from the theory of minimal spectral surfaces. Author of the theory of invariants and topological classification of integrable Hamiltonian dynamic systems. Laureate of the 1996 National Premium in Mathematics of the Russian Federation for a cycle of works on the Hamiltonian dynamic system multitude invariance theory. Author of 180 scientific publications, 26 monographs, and textbooks on mathematics, a specialist in geometry and topology, variational calculus, symplectic topology, Hamiltonian geometry and mechanics, computational geometry. Author of a number of books on the development of new empirical-statistical methods and their application to the analysis of historical chronicles as well as the chronology of Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
