In his 1979 science book Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science, astronomer Carl Sagan wrote that the high surface temperature of Venus was known prior to Velikovsky, and that Velikovsky misunderstood the mechanism for this heat.[14]
In his 1979 science book Broca’s Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science, astronomer Carl Sagan wrote that the high surface temperature of Venus was known prior to Velikovsky, and that Velikovsky misunderstood the mechanism for this heat.[14]
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So there was that fraud and liar Sagan pontificating on what was IV wrote over 20 years prior when main-streamers, like Sagan, believed Venus was and Earth-like planet that had vast jungles, animals, and maybe people of some sort; no one in any scientific community knew anything about the surface and atmospheric temperature of Venus, and not much more about Mars.
And you are using that Wikipedic Saganism to discredit IV? So tell me who, in the 1950, understood what the mechanism for heat was on any planetary body and, given that, how did IV get it right?
In fact, science in the 1950s came out and said, ‘we know know everything about science, and its just a mater of filling in the details’. So take Sagan with a bucket load of salt, for all he was worth.
And thus the dangers of using Wikipedia for any sort of fact or citation.