Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month 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 · 1 month agomessage-square6fedilink
minus-squareacockworkorangelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 month 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-up8·1 month 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
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