On Monday, July 31, 2017 at 8:03:05 PM UTC+1, palsing wrote:
On Monday, July 31, 2017 at 11:24:00 AM UTC-7, Gerald Kelleher wrote:

"The Sun and the Earth rotate on their own axes...The purpose of this
motion is to confer motion on the planets located around them;on the
six primary planets in the case of the Sun,and on the moon in the case
of the Earth.On the other hand the moon does not rotate on the axis of
its own body,as its spots prove " Kepler

Kepler, of course, was later proven wrong about his assessment of the moon's lack of apparent rotation. The moon is tidally coupled to the Earth's own rotation, which means that its orbital and rotational motions are essentially equal.

Of course, you will become enraged by such heresy, but nevertheless it is the case.


The moon orbiting the Earth is no different than a car circling a traffic roundabout where one side of the car always faces the roundabout while the other side faces away .This scales up to the moon orbiting the Earth and spectacular on the solar eclipse -

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/000...endler_big.jpg

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/f...ght_corona.jpg

Anyone can declare -beautiful,fantastic,amazing at the image of the moon in the other thread but these are empty words among people who never followed the understanding of the original Sun centered astronomers or indeed the ancient astronomers who were aware the moon orbiting the Earth.

I don't mind what you inflict upon yourselves but it is criminally unjust to prevent the wider population from appreciating these facets of the eclipse event.