title: History: Fiction or Science? Dating methods as offered by mathematical statistics. Eclipses and zodiacs. Chronology Vol.I
author:  Anatoly Fomenko 
description: Earth was flat. Humans saw that it was flat, books were telling scholars that it was flat, teachers were teaching students it was flat; scientists knew it was flat. There was some disagreement about the way it was kept afloat, most common versions were elephants, whales and turtles, but that was subject for scientific discussion. Until Magellan sailed around the globe and proved all this science wrong. This book is precisely about same situation. Although it is written for casual reader, it still bears all the traits of scientific research. Anyway, history as a science is based on books written by previous generation of historians, who based their works on works of previous generation of historians, supplemented by archeological digs (great deal of assumptions was made there too, as people didn't usually mark their belongings with dates), so it definitely needs some mathematical treatment. It is very difficult to digest the new version of history from Fomenko without getting allergic shock. Official timeline is accepted in the same way as gravity, and movement of the sun; many nations have developed their identity based on official history. Literally speaking chronology is in our culture, in our roots, personal identity. Someone said here that this book was written by Russian nationalist to reassure Russian national identity. May be so, but I think for Russians will be very difficult to swallow that they were actually Mongols and Tatars too. This book will turn your world upside down. Literally. --New Book Review, 03-03-2007 (CA, USA)<br /><br />History: Fiction Or Science? is a quite scholarly expose of the extreme limitations of our understanding of human history. So few physical records have survived hundreds, let alone thousands of years that it casts even the most conventional understanding of what really happened into doubt. Chapters address the problems of historical chronology in general, astronomical datings, astronomy in the Old Testament, methods of dating ancient events via mathematical statistics, the construction of a global chronological map, the Dark Ages, and much more. Black-and-white illustrations add a vivid touch to this scholarly work that may appear controversial yet deals with a very serious issue directly affecting humanity's comprehension of its own past. --Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
zlib_text: Anatoly T. Fomenko
  History:
  Fiction
  or Science?
  Copyrighled material
  
  Who controls the past controls the future.
  Who controls the present controls the past.
  George Orwell
  Scaliger seduced me; chronological studies,
  as I see, terrify me.
  Iohannes Kepler
  Be wary of mathematiciens, particularly
  when they speak the truth.
  St. Augustine
  
  ii
  I
  history: fiction or science?
  A. T. Fomenko
  Chronology 1
  Introducing the problem. A criticism of the Scaligerian chronology.
  Dating methods as offered by mathematical statistics. Eclipses and zodiacs.
  A. T. Fomenko
  Chronology 2
  The dynastic parallelism method. Rome. Troy. Greece. The Bible. Chronological shifts.
  A. T. Fomenko, V. V. Kalashnikov, G. V. Nosovskiy
  Chronology 3
  Astronomical methods as applied to chronology. Ptolemy's Almagest.
  Tycho Brahe. Copernicus. The Egyptian zodiacs.
  A.
  T. Fomenko, G. V. Nosovskiy
  Chronology 4
  Russia. Britain. Byzantium. Rome.
  A.
  T. Fomenko, G. V. Nosovskiy
  Chronology 5
  Russia = Horde. Ottomans = Atamans. Europe. Chin