Original sentence: Astronomer Harlow Shapley, along with others such as Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, were highly critical of Macmillan's decision to publish the work.. The fundamental criticism against this book from the astronomy community was that its celestial mechanics were irreconcilable with physics requiring planetary orbits which could do not conform with the laws of conservation of energy and conservation of angular momentum.More recently, the absence of supporting material in ice-core studies (such as the Greenland Dye-3 and Vostok cores) have removed any basis for the proposition of a global catastrophe of the proposed dimension within the later Holocene period.Sagan's arguments were aimed at a popular audience and he did not bother to remain to debate Velikovsky in person, facts that were used by Velikovsky's followers to attempt to discredit his analysis (see Ginenthal in References below)
Edited sentence: (see Ginenthal in References below).Astronomer Harlow Shapley, along with others such as Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, were highly critical of Macmillan's decision to publish the work.More recently, the absence of supporting material in ice-core studies (such as the Greenland Dye-3 and Vostok cores) have seemed to remove any basis for the proposition of a global catastrophe of the proposed dimension within the later Holocene period.Nevertheless, the great body of evidence for such an event, presented in Earth in Upheaval, has yet to be addressed by any critic.Sagan's arguments were aimed at a popular audience and he did not bother to remain to debate Velikovsky in person, and his arguments were later comrehensively rebutted in a book entitled Scientists Confront Scientists who Confront Velikovsky.The fundamental criticism against this book from the astronomy community was that its celestial mechanics were irreconcilable with physics requiring planetary orbits which could do not conform with the laws of conservation of energy and conservation of angular momentum