Venus orbit

This sacred geometry artwork is the motion of Venus from our perspective on Earth. view video demonstration here run applet model here

The Kiss of Venus - Earth/Venus Orbit

This is the story of a quite extraordinary synthesis in the history of archaoastronomy, as the bare bones of an advanced astronomical system are revealed for the first time in a thousand years. It is also the story of two numbers that underpin life on Earth and shape our local […]

“geometric patterns in the solar system:”

This image, made by Greg Egan, shows the orbit of Venus. Look down on the plane of the Solar System from above the Earth. Track the Earth so it always appears directly below you, but don’t …

Have you seen Venus shining brightly in the night sky? Its glow has been hard to miss. Soon however, Venus will drop below the horizon as it enters retrograde, only to return once again as a morning star. This is the rebirth of Venus and the rebirth of our heart too. Venus is the Goddess […]

The Dance of Earth and Venus Around the Sun

What is the Fourier transform? What does it do? Why is it useful (in math, in engineering, physics, etc)? This question is based on the question of Kevin Lin, which didn't quite fit in Mathoverflow.

“Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes — I mean the universe — but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written. The book is written in mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles, circles […]