Magazine content is available exclusively for TIME subscribers.Science: Venus on the Loose
The serenely beautiful evening star, the planet Venus, was not always a well-behaved heavenly body. According to "Universal Scholar" Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky, in his forthcoming book Worlds in Collision (soon to be published by Macmillan), Venus was once the bad girl of the solar system. She frightened the whole human race into a "collective amnesia" which kept her misbehavior from being recorded.
But Dr. Velikovsky is correcting the human race's forgetfulness. Born in Vitebsk, Russia, in 1895, Dr. Velikovsky studied "a little zoology and botany" in Edinburgh in 1914. Later he got an M.D. from Moscow Imperial University, and practiced medicine...
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