• pruwyben@discuss.tchncs.de
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    4 months ago

    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.

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      4 months ago

      Copernikus 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.

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      4 months ago

      But look at the wording in the title. “Not even Copernicus”. Like seeing Mercury is something extremely out of the ordinary.