Fellow geometer, John Martineau, has recently added an elegant poster depicting the mystical pentagonal orbital choreography that Earth and Venus exhibit in their geometrical relationship seen from above the solar system’s ecliptic plane. This image – showing one of this planetary pair’s spatial or temporal 5:8 ratio relationships – is an excellent complement to his superb series of Wooden Books about a wide range of related topics, and particularly to my personal favorite, A Little Book of Coincidence – the inspiration for my “Martineau Solar System Series” of art prints, etc. which has a line art rendition of the large, upper image of this poster. Enjoy! :-)
Here is a description about the poster:
“An accurate scientific drawing of Venus’ amazing pattern around the Earth
Did you know that Venus, our closest planetary neighbour, draws a beautiful fivefold pattern around Earth? She does this every eight years. This extraordinary hi-res image shows Venus’ path around Earth over 32 years and has been generated by legendary author, researcher and publisher John Martineau”