venus-inexplicable

On this web page, you can see scans from Immanuel Velikovsky's book Worlds in Collision (published by Sphere Books, 1972). He shows that Venus, within historical times was not in its present orbit. It is a fact that Venus has an orbit that is almost perfectly circular. If Venus was "captured" by The Sun (within historical times), it would necessarily have to have an eccentric (very elliptical - or "elongated") orbit. In his book, Velikovsky quotes very numerous ancient sources which all agree that Venus was not THEN in the position that it occupies today. If we accept these numerous ancient accounts at their face value, we have to accept that Venus was "placed" into its present orbit by means other than natural physical laws (as currently conceived).      

This is from page 4.

This is from pages 162 to 166.