The Book Nobody Reads and the reason why.

It is unfortunate that people take enormous satisfaction from
presenting the Copernican insight in its basest form,that the Earth
moves around the Sun while the Ptolemaic astronomers are assigned the
ignomious condition of believing the universe rotated around the
Earth.In demeaning the Ptolemaic astronomers to a condition that even
they would have been embarrassed to hold,it also diminishes the
dramatic difference which Copernicus introduced by placing the Earth's
orbit between Venus and Mars in accounting for so much.

While the Earth overtaking the slower moving outer planets was the main
argument for an orbitally moving Earth as resolving observed planetary
heliocentric motion directly,other ones are just as subtle and permit
readers to see how these great men thought.

The representation on page 86 demonstrates how the annual orbital
motion of Mars can be calculated against the Earth's annual motion and
from there to the periodic times argument for heliocentricity by
Kepler.It is really rewarding for people who wish to use their
intuitive faculties and heliocentric astronomy,when not geometric is
entirely about intuitive judgements.


http://mitpress.mit.edu/journals/pdf/POSC_13_1_74_0.pdf

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Epitome Of Copernican Astronomy by JOHANNES KEPLER


Finally by what arguments do you prove that the centre of the Sun which

is at the midpoint of the planetary spheres and bears their whole
system - does not revolve in some annual movement,as Brahe wishes,but
in accordance with Copernicus sticks immobile in one place,while the
centre of the Earth revolves in an annual movement.


Argument 10


" The 10th argument,taken from the periodic times, is as follows; the
apparent movement of the Sun has 365 days which is the mean measure
between Venus' period of 225 days and Mars' period of 687
days.Therefore does not the nature of things shout out loud that the
circuits in which those 365 days are taken up has a mean position
between the circuits of Mars and Venus around the Sun and thus this is
not the circuit of the Sun around the Earth -for none of the primary
planets has its orbit arranged around the Earth,as Brahe admits,but the

circuit of the Earth around the resting Sun,just as the other
planets,namely Mars and Venus,complete their own periods by running
around the Sun."


Johannes Kepler


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I do not know why it happens that an inferior and fraudulent view is
adhered to when the actual intuitive view is an incredible and
satisfying experience.I understand that the 17th century guy is almost
a national heritage but there are others of the same heritage who
recognised the wasteland created by that man's agenda and fought tooth
and nail to show where the real English Spirit exists *.More than
anything I would have wished that the matter be corrected by a people
and I still wish it so.


* http://www.princeton.edu/~his291/Newton.html

In article . com,
"oriel36" wrote:


The great scientist can explain his position in two paragraphs of six
sentences each. Your excessive verbiage is proof enough of this.

a1pha-0mega wrote:
In article . com,
"oriel36" wrote:


The great scientist can explain his position in two paragraphs of six
sentences each. Your excessive verbiage is proof enough of this.

It may happen that optical astronomers may turn a telescope back at our
home planet to learn about heliocentric astronomy for the first time
and discover the wealth of information contained in the axial /orbital
motions and orientations.

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/pla..._earthrise.jpg

Kepler was an astronomer and the language of astronomy is and always
will be geometry.I recognise how humanity is great and enjoy the
achievements I see day after day across the vast sprawl of human
endeavor but I see none here.I see only optical astronomers content
with making objects appear bigger and theorists trying to make
themselves bigger than the material and making a nuisance of
themselves.