In Worlds in Collision, published in 1950, Velikovsky wrote:
The accepted celestial mechanics, notwithstanding the many calculations that have been carried out to many decimal places, or verified by celestial motions, stands only If the sun, the source of light, warmth, and other radiation produced by fusion and fission of atoms is as a whole an electrically neutral body, and also if the planets, in their usual orbits, are neutral bodies.
Fundamental principles in celestial mechanics including the law of gravitation, must come into question if the sun possesses a charge sufficient to influence the planets in their orbits or the comets in theirs. In the Newtonian celestial mechanics, based on the theory of gravitation, electricity and magentism play no role.
I REALLY need to get my hands on WIC. Many of V’s ideas are grist for the scientific mill, or should be.