after milanković's death, most of the scientific community came to dispute his "astronomical theory" and no longer recognized the results of his research. but ten years after his death and fifty years from the first publication, milanković's theory was again taken under consideration. his "book" was translated into english under the title "canon of insolation of the ice-age problem" in 1969 by the israel program for scientific translations, and was published by the u.s. department of commerce and the national science foundation in washington, d.c..