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| Discipline | Immanuel Velikovsky |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Lewis M. Greenberg |
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| History | 1975–1988 |
| Publisher | Kronos Press |
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| ISO 4 | Kronos |
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| ISSN | 0361-6584 |
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Kronos: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Synthesis published articles on topics related to the theories ofImmanuel Velikovsky,[1] it was "founded, with no apologies, to deal with Velikovsky's work";[2] and as such hosted epigraphs on a wide range of subjects fromancient history,catastrophism andmythology. It ran 44 issues from the Spring of 1975 to the Spring of 1988. The title is an homage to the Greek name for the Roman god Saturn whose planetary namesake Velikovsky believed Earth once orbited as a satellite. Professor of Social TheoryAlfred de Grazia atNew York University, co-author ofThe Velikovsky Affair and avowed supporter of some of Velikovsky's maverick ideas, however, remarked that although the journal was devoted to discussing Velikovsky's ideas, "[t]his is not to say that the directors of Kronos were uncritical".[3] The journal was published by Kronos Press, a division of Cosmos and Chronos (a US-registered 501(c) organization). Its subscription list grew to about 2000[4] and then settled to about 1500 people from 10 countries.[5]
Two issues ofKronos were also published as books:
Both issues concerned the 1974AAAS meeting in San Francisco (Mon Feb 25, 1974) in a session "Velikovsky's Challenge to Science",[6] whose papers were subsequently published in the bookScientists Confront Velikovsky (1977)[7] (with exception of the papers from Velikovsky himself and Irving Michelson, and additional papers by the editor, Goldsmith,Isaac Asimov andDavid Morrison).
Kronos was founded in October 1974, by (1) then associate professor of art history Lewis M. Greenberg of theMoore College of Art (Philadelphia), whose title was Editor-in-Chief, (2) with financing, production, and management being coordinated by then associate professor of Religion Warner B. Sizemore atGlassboro State College as Executive Editor, and (3) by then Professor of HistoryRobert H. Hewsen atGlassboro State College as the first Senior Editor who was also Director of the Center for Velikovskian and Interdisciplinary Studies atGlassboro State College.[8] With the completion of volume XII in May 1988, the Editor-in-Chief announced "KRONOS will go on hiatus with the expectation that a publication schedule can be resumed some time in 1990."[9] The hiatus was permanent.
In his bookBeyond Velikovsky,Henry H. Bauer (a person who himself is criticized for supporting variouspseudoscientific ideas) commented on a number of pro-Velikovskian journals, includingKronos, and noted:
Robert Schadewald commented that "Though Velikovsky's views were rejected by scientists, a small but vociferous band of followers carries on Velikovsky's work. They also publish a journal,Kronos, which is at least as scientific as theCreation Research Society Quarterly."[10]