On Wednesday, July 12, 2017 at 2:21:07 AM UTC+1, Paul Schlyter wrote:


The only difference is that inferior planets retrograde around
inferior conjunction instead of around opposition.

The only thing that is inferior here are the imageless and spiritless voodoo merchants but everything else is explained with ease and enjoyment, something denied the wider population because these fools can't use 21st century observations.

http://www.zam.fme.vutbr.cz/~druck/e...Tse1997uw2.png

http://astronomer.wpengine.netdna-cd...s_of_venus.jpg

The sight of the inner planets running their circuits around a central Sun in the picture seen from Earth could now be joined by pictures of the Earth seen from Mars doing the same thing.

These empirical imposters have no respect for what has been done considering that the original heliocentric astronomers did make the distinction but were hampered in their inability to account for inner retrogrades using the antecedent geocentric framework -

"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." Galileo

There are only inferior minds who lack the spirit to make sense of observations in language that the wider population and especially students can understand.