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Old July 29th 15, 07:10 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
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Default The issue with the periodic times argument

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdFrE7hWj0A

The original heliocentric astronomers worked with the antecedent geocentric framework where all nearby celestial objects, including the Sun, were seen to move through the constellations and discerned the structure of the solar system by the so-called 'Periodic times' argument where the slower the planet was seen to move against the background,the further it was away from the central Earth.

" 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 ,but the circuit of the Earth around the resting Sun " Kepler

The 21st century modification is switching perspectives from the motion of the Sun through the constellations to the line-of-sight observation that the stars move in sequence behind the Sun, something which is incorporated in the Sky and Tel graphic above as El Nath, Castor and Pollux are seen to move by virtue of the Earth's orbital motion . I have to borrow from an astrological website as currently there is no astronomical website that contains this modification -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeQwYrfmvoQ


I understand that most readers here just do not want to know and that is fine, it reflects on human kindness and intelligence whether the insight which separates the inner and outer planets by perspectives seen from a moving Earth makes it into wider circulation.

 




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