Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoTIL It is said that not even Nicolaus Copernicus ever saw planet Mercury. The reason is that, as an inner planet (to Earth), it will never angularly move away more than 28 degrees from the Sunwww.sav.skexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up148arrow-down17
arrow-up141arrow-down1external-linkTIL It is said that not even Nicolaus Copernicus ever saw planet Mercury. The reason is that, as an inner planet (to Earth), it will never angularly move away more than 28 degrees from the Sunwww.sav.skDon_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square6fedilink
minus-squareacockworkorange@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·4 months ago? What were Ancient Greek and Romans seeing in the sky with the naked eye then?
minus-squarepruwyben@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·4 months agoLots of people saw it before him. Apparently he (supposedly) just happened to never see it. Strangely his Wikipedia page says he made 3 observations of Mercury.
minus-squareSuccessful_Try543@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·4 months agoCopernikus wrote in De revolutionibus: „The planet tortured us with many riddles and great hardship as we explored its wanderings“. So he observed him for three times, but it wasn’t easy.
minus-squareacockworkorange@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·4 months agoBut look at the wording in the title. “Not even Copernicus”. Like seeing Mercury is something extremely out of the ordinary.
minus-square2001aCentenaryofFederation@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up8·4 months agoto me it reads as if nobody has ever seen mercury and somehow copernicus was the only person who would have had the chance lol
? What were Ancient Greek and Romans seeing in the sky with the naked eye then?
Lots of people saw it before him. Apparently he (supposedly) just happened to never see it.
Strangely his Wikipedia page says he made 3 observations of Mercury.
Copernikus wrote in De revolutionibus:
So he observed him for three times, but it wasn’t easy.
But look at the wording in the title. “Not even Copernicus”. Like seeing Mercury is something extremely out of the ordinary.
to me it reads as if nobody has ever seen mercury and somehow copernicus was the only person who would have had the chance lol
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