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Sales Rank: 144839

Media: Paperback
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Pages: 624
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 7 x 1.6

ISBN: 2913621058
Dewey Decimal Number: 909
EAN: 9782913621053

Publication Date: March 2004
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Radiocarbon dating has precision of +/-1800 years at best November 28, 2004
22 out of 34 found this review helpful

There are a host of problems with radiocarbon dating. It assumes the isotope always decayed at the same rate. You simply cannot make those assumptions and call yourself a scientist. In many instances, items with known dates were given to several labs to be tested and the dates came back way off. So far off, in fact, to make radiodating a joke. It also does not take into consideration a different prehistoric atmosphere which would inhibit the sun's radiation from hitting the earth, thereby making radiocarbondating extremely tentative.
It relies on too many assumptions to make it scientifically accurate.

5 out of 5 stars

the dating of turin shroud is correct? November 12, 2004
13 out of 24 found this review helpful

The dark ages were dark, but not so dark that a 1000 years went missing. too many writings, books, buildings and navylogs contain dates too bridge most of the period between the fall of the roman empire and the renaissance. when did people collectively adapt to a fake date?

5 stars for starting a discussion

5 out of 5 stars

Foreword as Afterword October 31, 2004
13 out of 15 found this review helpful

I've stumbled upon the conclusion of the Foreword of Dr.Prof Zinoviev:
Quote:
..concerning the exceptional scientific scrupulousness of
the works of A. Fomenko and G.Nosovskiy. I have examined
them from exactly this position many a time,
and I have neither found a single ipse dixit statement,
nor any categorical pontificating of any kind. The
general narrative scheme they employ is as follows:
the authors relate the consensual (textbook) historical
concepts and then cite historical facts which either
fail to concur to said concepts, or contradict them explicitly.
Other authors who have noticed these inconsistencies
are quoted. Then Fomenko and Nosovskiy
put forth hypotheses which allow to find logically
correct solutions for the problems under study. They
keep on emphasizing and reiterating that the issue at
hand is all about hypotheses and not categorical statements
presented as the truth absolute. The readers are
invited to take part in the solution of problems that
arise as a consequence of the consensual chronological
concept of history. I am amazed by the horrendous
injustice of the numerous critics of Fomenko
and Nosovskiy, who obviously distort their ideas, either
failing to understand them completely or being
altogether unfamiliar with their content. It is also
quite astounding that whenever a publication occurs
that voices ideas that bear semblance to those of
Fomenko and Nosovskiy, but are a lot more tame and
local, providing a lot less factual information, this
publication is usually accepted with a great deal more
benevolence. I understand the psychological groundwork
beneath this - Fomenko and Nosovskiy have
performed a great scientific feat of epochal significance,
one that affects the sentiments and interests of too
many people. Acknowledging this feat as such, or at
the very least the mere fact of its creative relevance,
obligates one to actions that are apparently beyond
these people due to their incapacity and immaturity.
The trouble with Fomenko and Nosovskiy is that they
have reached out too far and dealt the dominating historical
discourse too heavy a blow.
Unquote

Humbly suggest that the publisher makes it to an Afterword.

5 out of 5 stars

Thoroughly researched challenge to "Scaligerian history" September 3, 2004
46 out of 55 found this review helpful

This english translation may well be source of the same sort of paradigm shift that Bjorn Lomborg has instigated in environmental research when he exposed many researchers as scaremongers that put us on the wrong track to improvement.

Although the tone is sometimes pedantic the content surprises with a matter of fact and extremely intelligent and consistent presentation using 1500 (!) sources. All arguments in the amazon.com reviews so far that try to "debunk" this book as nonsense are dealt with in a very thorough and convincing fashion in the book.

The picture that very clearly emerges is that of a house of cards where different disciplines (C-14 dating, dendrochronology, archeology and history) need eachother in order to stay consistent about the timeframe from say 2000BC to 1500AC. I was particularly surprised about the fact that most C-14 datings are rejected and they are often off by 1 or 2 thousand years. The procedure seems to be one of carefully choosing the datings that confirm expectations. This is not only the view of renegades like Christian Bloss and Hans-Ulrich Niemitz but also of articles in New Scientist and Nature and the evidence (wrong datings) speaks for itself.

It seems that nobody really ever questioned the datings that where invented by Scaliger and Petavius (based on interpretations from the bible) after the XV century. All the outrageous claims on the back cover are very well substantiated. For me it was interesting that the "dark ages" finally made sense.

Does this mean that I think Anatoly Fomenko is right on all points? I don't think so. Many of the hypotheses that he presents will without doubt be corrected after thorough research. But I do think that his critisism is so valid and so fundamental that it will change or even obliterate current beliefs about ancient history.

I am very curious how the scientific community of historians will react to this outstandingly researched work now that it's available in English.

5 out of 5 stars

Deals with a very serious issue July 17, 2004
0 out of 13 found this review helpful

History: Fiction Or Science? is a quite scholarly expose of the extreme limitations of our understanding of human history. So few physical records have survived hundreds, let alone thousands of years that it casts even the most conventional understanding of what really happened into doubt. Chapters address the problems of historical chronology in general, astronomical datings, astronomy in the Old Testament, methods of dating ancient events via mathematical statistics, the construction of a global chronological map, the Dark Ages, and much more. Black-and-white illustrations add a vivid touch to this scholarly work that may appear controversial yet deals with a very serious issue directly affecting humanity's comprehension of its own past.

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