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On five occasions in my life, and on five occasions only,
I have had an opportunity of testing my Abductions
about historical facts, by the fulfillment of my
predictions in subsequent archeological or other
discoveries; and on each one of those five occasions
my conclusions which in every case ran counter to that of
the highest authorities, turned out to be correct. The two last
cases were these. Prof. Petrie published a history of Egypt in which he
treated the first three dynasties as mythical. I was just about
writing a history of science and in the first chapter I showed why those
Dynasties including the name of Menes and other
facts ought to be considered historical. Before my book was near completed
Petrie himself found the tomb of Menes. Again a few
years ago I wrote in the Nation, where there was no room for details
that the Babylonians had high scientific genius and that there
was reason to conjecture that Alexander sent home a Babylonian celestial
globe dating from 2300 years B.C. Now the
newest finds show that at that very date they were accomplished astronomers.

95

On five occasions in my life, and on five occasions only,
I have had an opportunity of testing my Abductions
about historical facts, by the fulfillment of my
predictions in subsequent archeological or other
discoveries; and on each one of those five occasions
my conclusions which in every case ran counter to that of
the highest authorities, turned out to be correct. The two last
cases were these. Prof. Petrie published a history of Egypt in which he
treated the first three dynasties as mythical. I was just about
writing a history of science and in the first chapter I showed why those
Dynasties in cluding the name of Menes and other
facts ought to be considered historical. Before my book was near completed
Petrie himself found the tomb of Menes. Again a few
years ago I wrote in the Nation, where there was no room for details
that the Babylonians had high scientific genius and that there
was reason to conjecture that Alexander sent home a Babylonian celestial
globe dating from 2300 years B.C. Now the
newest finds show that at that very date they were accomplished astronomers.