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English[en]
For many years it was thought that Mercury was synchronously tidally locked with the Sun, rotating once for each orbit and always keeping the same face directed towards the Sun, in the same way that the same side of the Moon always faces Earth.
Latin[la]
Aliquos per annos Mercurius semel quaque in orbita synchrone aestuose occludi cum Solem, eandem faciem Soli directam semper, eodem modo velut Luna semper Telluri, ostendens putabatur.