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In the mean it receives nearly seven times as much heat from the Sun as the Earth does, but this supply is not maintained uniformly, for Mercury moves round the Sun in a very eccentric orbit, so that when in aphelion it receives, surface for surface, only about four times as much heat as the Earth, but some six weeks later when in perihelion it receives more than eleven times.
In the six weeks in which Mercury moves from aphelion to perihelion, it approaches the Sun by fourteen millions of miles, and the heat received by it is increased 2½ times.
But at aphelion it retreats deep into the region of the asteroids, and is much more than four times the mean distance of the Earth.
At aphelion it recedes to thirty-five times the distance of the Earth, far beyond the orbit of Neptune.
When at aphelion the planets move slower, and when at perihelion they move quicker than at the mean distance.
Lilly, who predicted the Great Plague and Fire of London some years previous to the event from the ingress of[Pg 132] the Aphelion of Mars to the sign Virgo, evidently made use of the Rudolphine Tables constructed by Tycho and Kepler, and according to these the ingress took place in 1654, while according to more modern Tables it did not take place until 1672.
All these anomalies and contradictions are due, as I shall show in my new Tables and Thesis, to the importation of false factors into the problem of the Moon’s motion, which, in fact, is extremely simple, perfectly regular, and affected only by its anomaly or distance from the aphelion and, where the time equation is employed, by the increase of radius.
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