physis, natura and natality between Heidegger and Arendt

If it offends Heideggerians to consider Arendt and Heidegger bodily, so be it.

Other students of Heidegger are struck by her emphasis on natality.  A fate may be unknown, but a birth is historically conditioned in a rather different sense.

Heidegger's etymology of the Latin translation of Greek physis leaves no doubt.

What is more difficult is the link with Galileo and the phenomena: that were critical: the phases of Venus.  Not the depictions of Venus by artists through the ages.  The Galilean phases of Venus cast Venus into the orbit of Apollo: the modified geocentrism could not be evaded once these observations becames bold assertions exposing an inconsistency.  Perhaps the sun went about the earth: but Venus went about the sun.  Then came the transit of Mercury.

Could an exceptionally acute human eye, armed only with a filtering glass, have detected the phases of Venus?  Visual acuity can be astonishingly surprising.  Galileo's spyglass was built from spectacle lenses.

What should be kept from sight?  For the Japanese, the taboo has sometimes been pubic hair.  The flowing hair of Venus, the head of Venus: das Hymen.  Venerate. Ehren. Irren. Die Hymen Hoelderlins. Diotima.

Heideggger never addresses Einstein's achievement concerning the orbit of Mercury: mere measurements made using instruments.  And Eddington was no philosopher.

Bolzano: on the State and war as acute observations.
Ricoeur: a rhapsody of ideas (random sodomy)