On Monday, 21 May 2018 14:59:54 UTC+2, wrote:

But if you read what he says, he still thinks it goes left and right like a moon of Jupiter. He does not grasp why it is in retrograde for less than 10% of the time, and he flat denies that the path of Venus across the stars includes little S shapes and closed loops.


Sorry, you lost me at "little S-shapes."
Is that Newtonian or does it cough fall under General Relativity? ;-)