Coincidence

Venus draws a beautiful pentagram around Earth every eight years. Jupiters two largest moons draw a perfect fourfold flower. The Planets grandly play out a slow Music of the Spheres. Is there a secret structure hidden in the Solar System Packed with great illustrations and serious research from many sources, this bestselling little book by ancient sciences boffin John Martineau will instantly retune your cosmological circuits to the the primary patterns behind Life, the Universe and Everything.

• Climb up a hill at midday on your birthday every year and look at the Sun. Each year Venus will be
• written and illustrated by John Martineau A little book of coincidence in the solar system First pub
• To people who have tragically grown up in a world devoid of a magical cosmology. Thanks to the many
• 1 Biological life is now thought to have appeared on this planet not long after its formation. It s
• 3 2 the welltuned universe Theres a lot going on in the universe. We can now see as many stars with
• 4 spirals everywhere Our solar system seems to have condensed from the debris of an earlier version
• 7 6 Ancient astronomers who watched the sky from Earth noticed that apart from the Sun and Moon ther
• 9 8 A short four hundred years ago the diagrams opposite formed the cornerstone of cosmological scie
• 10 The extraordinary Ptolemaic world of epicycles and deferents lasted a surprisingly long time. De
• 13 12 Kepler noticed three things about planetary orbits. Firstly that they are ellipses so that a
• 15 14 In ancient times the seven musical notes were assigned to the seven heavenly bodies in various
• 16 harmonics and rhythmic kisses There have been numerous attempts to discover patterns in the orbit
• 19 18 Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars Our solar system can be thought of a series of thin rotating ri
• 20 a few tips on things which appear in this book Seen from Earth, day or night, the Sun moves slowl
• 22 a very simple aidememoire There are few things more simple than a circle. With Keplers discovery
• our most beautiful relationship Other than the Sun and Moon, the brightest point in the sky is Venus
• 26 the perfect Beauty of venus the things they dont teach you at school With the Sun in the centre,
• 28 yet more phives and eights Mercury and Earth s physical sizes are in the same relation as their
• 30 three to eleven all round From the surface of the Earth, the Sun and the Moon appear the same siz
• 32 just three numbers do the trick Recent work by Robin Heath has revealed simple geometrical and ma
• 34 Mars, Earth and Venus spaced The next planet out from Earth is the fourth planet, Mars. Kepler h
• 37 36 through the looking glass We have reached the end of the inner solar system. Beyond Mars lies
• 38 Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune beyond Beyond the Asteroid Belt we come to the realm of the gas
• 40 fours Mars, Jupiter and massive moons An asteroid belt and 550 million km separate Mars and Jupit
• 42 Four groups of moons orbit Jupiter. The first two groups each have four moons so look very like
• 44 Jupiter, the largest planet, was king of the ancient gods, Zeus to the Greeks. A delightful feat
• 46 Jupiter and Saturn are the two largest planets of the solar system and ruled the outer two sphere
• 48 If you ever want to incorporate Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus orbits into a window or floor design t
• 51 50 As we move further out triangular geometries prevail two shown below 99.9. Uranus and Neptune
• the starry sIGnature circumstantial evidence for life on earth Despite all the scientific discoverie
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