Of course these days there are advanced AI translators, but they still struggle when they encounter something like "a thing was done by a thing", "man has been doing a thing" or when russian "and" is used as an emphasis rather than actual enumeration. And we all know how soft people are these days, they would avoid any kind of struggle and would rather read highly polished status quo sources or aforementioned Fomenko.
I needed a solid basis like a text that I could just link to people instead of writing a huge comment to explain every little detail again and again. I also needed a source that approaches the matter in a serious and structured way. Postnikov's calm, succint, kinda detective style seemed like an obvious choice.
These are my translations of the early "pre-Fomenko" 1977 lectures of Postnikov in which he was trying to explain the initial ideas of Morozov.
Morozov was Europe-centric and wasn't really into maths.
Chapter 1. Antique literature
- Tacitus and Poggio Bracciolini
- Literary hoaxes and fakes
- Figures of the Rennaissance
- Review of the origins of the most important compositions of the Antiquity
- On possibility of antique literature in general and its specific genres in particular
- Distribution of genres of antique literature over time
- The beginning of Roman chronicle
- Roman calendar
Chapter 2. Astronomical method in chronology (Eclipses)
- Basic facts about eclipses
- "History of the Peloponnesian War" by Thucydides
- Solar, Lunar eclipses and chronology
- Examples of astronomical dating (Titus Livy, Homer, Thakelot)
- Discussing the final list of Ginzel
- Herodotus and his "History"
Chapter 3. Ptolemy's "Almagest" and antique scientific literature
- Coordinates of stars on the celestial sphere
- Ptolemy and «The Great Creation»
- Lunar, solar, and lunisolar calendars
- Origin of antique scientific literature
- Apocryphing of medieval science to ancientry and its consequences
I think these can be used as a clean slate for the westerners interested in the new chronology.
