On Sunday, August 13, 2023 at 12:43:21 PM UTC+1, Gerald Kelleher wrote:
https://sol24.net/data/html/SOHO/C3/96H/VIDEO/
As Venus overtakes the slower-moving Earth, the position of the mutual planes does not make this event as obvious as they normally are. Venus barely enters the range of the camera at the bottom left and leaves the range today as it passes directly
between the Earth and our parent and stationary star.
The present sullen reactions to a resolved issue that was not available to first solar system researchers of the past in terms of a moving Earth or the ability to appreciate what contemporary satellite imaging can do must be unbearable.
"Now what is said here of Jupiter is to be understood of Saturn and
Mars also. In Saturn, these retrogressions are somewhat more frequent
than in Jupiter, because its motion is slower than Jupiter's, so that
the Earth overtakes it in a shorter time. In Mars they are rarer, its
motion being faster than that of Jupiter, so that the Earth spends
more time in catching up with it. Next, as to Venus and Mercury, whose
circles are included within that of the Earth, stoppings and
retrograde motions appear in them also, due not to any motion that
really exists in them, but to the annual motion of the Earth. This is
acutely demonstrated by Copernicus . . ."
Galileo, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
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