here are the orbits of the inner planets including the orbit of the earth, mars, jupiter, saturn and uranus and apart from an occasional comment in someone's, desperate much what astronomers knew about the source system in 1800. anti-infective and this is a very modern picture, because of uranus had only been discovered in 1781. so the signature could have been drawn 20 years earlier. the planets of course from mercury to saturn were not even to ancient astronomers. this was a modern view of the solar system in 1800. for fun, although this is the arrangement of the solar system or the contents of the solar system as they were known then, ma showing you the locations of the planet today, on this very day. so that's why did you imagine being here on earth, and earth rotating this way, then you can see just after the sun has gone down mercury and venus are near the sun and, in fact, maybe you can just barely catching a glimpse of them now, but in the next few weeks that will be even easier. at you can also see jupiter, mars and saturn are all in the evening sky. when you leave this evening, in