Something new

Keeping the same orbital face to the Sun -

http://www.pfm.howard.edu/astronomy/Chaisson/AT401/IMAGES/AACHCIR0.JPG

Or actually changing orbital orientation through 360 degrees over an
annual orbit

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/11/images/uranus_5year.jpg

For all the time spent here with the texts of
Copernicus,Kepler,Huygens ect and all the images,time lapse footage
and graphics and it all boils down to a new way to look at
things,using the change in orbital orientation to explain what
'variable axial tilt' tries to do.

You see how magnification adds to astronomy insofar as viewing other
planets helps to understand ours,the orbital orientation change of
Uranus being probably the most spectacular instance if people make
the effort.

It is something new for those with the intelligence or aptitude to
know it,not a novelistic fact but a dignified modification to the
original thinking of the great heliocentric astronomers.If I have
known the joy in adding to that tradition,I have known its opposite in
the silence of this era.

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