The papers of Russian-born American scientist and author Immanuel Velikovsky have a new home in the Princeton University Library. His daughter, Ruth Sharon of Princeton, has donated the papers for use ...

In 1950, Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky rewrote history. Or rather, he attempted to. A psychiatrist by training, the scholarly Velikovsky fashioned himself a historian, astronomer, chemist, geologist, ...

Princeton historian Gordin provides an often compelling but sometimes plodding account of the scientific and cultural impact of Immanuel Velikovsky’s book, Worlds in Collision, which soared to ...

Immanuel Velikovsky at the 1974 American Association for the Advancement of Science Conference in San Francisco In the 1940s, a curiously enigmatic figure haunted New York City’s great libraries ...

In 1950 Velikovsky authored a controversial book, Worlds in Collision, in which he argued, among other things, that science had failed to account for the electromagnetic nature of comets.

Had you been a well-educated reader of mainstream publications—such as this one!—in 1950, you would have been familiar with the name Immanuel Velikovsky.

Once it would have been possible to jump right into a discussion of Michael Gordin’s The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe (University of Chicago Press) with ...