We are not the First

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ERICH VON DANIKEN CHARIOTS OF THE GODS?
"Whether one accepts this (theory) or not, Mr. von Daniken's book is a challenging coniribution to discussion about our past -and future."—
Sunday Mirror
. . this is more than a trip into the history books. . . This is powerful stuff which, no matter how one tries, cannot be discarded as crackpot theories. It is likely to leave any one who has an open mind with mixed feelings about religion."—Daily Mail
All over the world there are fantastic ruins and improbable objects which cannot be explained by reference to conventional theories of archaelogy, liistory and religion. Within the framework of the beliefs and ideas of the last thousand years such things could not be explained. But if you look at them in the light of today's knowledge of space travel, a coherent picture begins to emerge. Fully illustrated 192 pages L1-50
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RETURN TO THE STARS
"Erich von Daniken maintains his theory that in the distant past Earth was visited by supermen... Tovább

Fülszöveg

ERICH VON DANIKEN CHARIOTS OF THE GODS?
"Whether one accepts this (theory) or not, Mr. von Daniken's book is a challenging coniribution to discussion about our past -and future."—
Sunday Mirror
. . this is more than a trip into the history books. . . This is powerful stuff which, no matter how one tries, cannot be discarded as crackpot theories. It is likely to leave any one who has an open mind with mixed feelings about religion."—Daily Mail
All over the world there are fantastic ruins and improbable objects which cannot be explained by reference to conventional theories of archaelogy, liistory and religion. Within the framework of the beliefs and ideas of the last thousand years such things could not be explained. But if you look at them in the light of today's knowledge of space travel, a coherent picture begins to emerge. Fully illustrated 192 pages L1-50
i
RETURN TO THE STARS
"Erich von Daniken maintains his theory that in the distant past Earth was visited by supermen from Outer Space of interest to all who have ever questioned our own origins."—Sunday Minor
"Von Daniken's theories will be by no means acceptable to m ly, yet surely they must pose questions that no one can afford to ignore. The author is convinced that our ror ^re in the past; that our future is in the past; and that it is all there, only waiting to be rediscovered."—
Bolton Evening News
Many people have scoffed at the idea of beings from another universe visiting earth. But in 1970 we saw the drama of a crippled American space-craft being nursed back to earth. Supposing it had landed on another planet at the same stage of development as the earth was 50,000 years ago. What would they teach the inhabitants? What remnants of their efforts to return to earth would they leave behind? How would the inhabitants remember them in myths and in art? The answers we would give fit exactly the vast number of unexplained mysteries which have been found all round the world.
Return to the Stars is another fascinating examination of a part of our hisrory which has been badly neglected. It will be eagerly read and discusscti,' the thousands of people who read Chariots of the Cods? (world sales SP^ May, 1970 around 750,000). Fully illustrated 192 pages
- ' The development of modern science in the course of the past four hundred years is merely a rediscovery of old knowledge. Penicillin was known in ancient Egypt thousands of years before Fleming. The Australian aborigine has practised blood transfusion since prehistoric times, yet this method is new in Western medicine.
An ancient Hindu book, in two hundred and thirty stanzas, gives detailed instructions for the construction of aircraft, ages before the Wright Brothers.
Atomic theory was worked out by Democritus 2500 years before Rutherford. We can no longer smile at the fossil "Science of alchemy because transmutation has become part of nuclear physics. The Biitish Museum possesses a unique specimen of alchemical gold.
Robots and computers were a reality centuries before Norlsert Wiener. The early inhabitants of England had used a computer in stone—Stonehenge—to forecast solar and lunar eclipses.
The map of Zeno of 1380 shows Greenland as it appeared thousands of years ago, without its ice sheet. On the Orontus Finaeus map dated 1531 the outline of Antarctica is clearly visible, yet the South Pole survey did not begin till the 19th century.
How did the ancient Babylonians know ofthe existence ofthe satellites of Jupiter and Saturn without a telescope?
In his well-constructed book Andrew Tomas proves his remarkable view of the andquity of modern science with a most comprehensive mass of facts. No one can doubt that present day science is built on the scientific tradition of the philosophers of ancient Greece and the priests of Babylon and Egypt. But who were their teachers? The author theorises that an unknown civilization in Time or Space could have left a cultural legacy to the people of antiquity.
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