https://sol24.net/data/html/SOHO/C3/96H/VIDEO/
Mercury is moving behind the Sun from right to left just as Jupiter was a week or so ago. The reason that Jupiter appeared to move from left to right is because the Earth moves faster so, in a line-of-sight judgment, it moved from an evening to morning
appearance from the surface of our planet while Mercury is now transitioning to an evening appearance after its period at dawn.
". . . The ancient hypotheses have clearly failed to account for certain important matters. For example, they do not comprehend the causes of the numbers, extents and durations of the retrogradations and of their agreeing so well with the position and
mean motion of the sun. Copernicus alone gives an explanation of those things that provoke astonishment among other astronomers, thus destroying the source of astonishment, which lies in the ignorance of the causes. " Johannes Kepler, 1596
I don't believe that readers find the new perspective joyless, after all, the ability to look into the heliostatic using a satellite that is free from daily rotational influences is a genuine advancement in solar system research. It is clear that the
older terms of direct/retrograde motion for the faster moving Venus and Mercury are different in this perspective than the direct/retrograde perspectives which the first heliostatic researchers used as part of thew Ptolemaic framework.
Because of its home in observational astronomy, the appreciation is only really suitable for the internet era rather than a book or a paper as it relies heavily on time lapse and graphics which model interpretation in an easy way. Anyone who promotes the
new perspective des[ite their previous views will be among the first in humanity to understand its relevance in a world that needs something new and creative.
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