I came to understand the words of Copernicus in his preface to De Revolutionibus as to why he choose not to publish the Commentariolus and their re-discovery in the mid 19th century in Sweden, Russia and Austria-
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/368473
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commentariolus#/media/File:Commentariolus_Wien_MS10530_Blatt_34.png
That small commentary is invaluable considering the issue of the Precession of the Equinoxes and the difficulties he had in using the Ptolemaic framework as the basis for a moving Earth in a Sun-centred system.
I reluctantly accept (after the moon thread) that consideration and discussion is close to impossible in this newsgroup full of commercial observers, dirty old men and theoretical malcontents but continue I will.
" ....not to be ridiculed by those who are reluctant to exert
themselves vigorously in any literary pursuit unless it is lucrative;
or if they are stimulated to the nonacquisitive study of philosophy by
the exhortation and example of others, yet because of their dullness
of mind they play the same part among scientists as drones among bees.
When I weighed these considerations, the scorn which I had reason to
fear on account of the novelty and unconventionality of my opinion
almost induced me to abandon completely the work which I had
undertaken." Copernicus
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