Worlds in Collision
Categories: Science & Math
Immanuel Velikovsky's 1950 bestseller argues that within recorded history Venus was ejected from Jupiter as a comet and passed close to Earth, causing global catastrophes later remembered in ancient myths and scriptures such as the plagues of Exodus. A sensation with the public, the book was rejected by astronomers and other scientists and set off one of the twentieth century's most famous controversies over science and pseudoscience.