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...Same volume. "The Roman Questions." Question 12: Why do they esteem Saturn...
...Pluto was unlucky. Drawing lots with his brothers Jupiter and Neptune (Saturn was their father, Rhea their mother) for the kingdoms of heaven, sea and the infernal regions, Pluto got Hades. Previously named for Pluto: a purgative water, a species of monkey...
...stars - all those visible from Chicago's side of the earth - in full bloom, he set the universe into action at a dizzy pace. Earth, a brisk little body, made her yearly trip around the sun in four minutes. Neighbor Mars required 7.2 min.; poky Jupiter 47.2 min.; Saturn 2 hr., 56 min. Scurrying Venus made her lap in 148 sec.; Mercury, 58 sec. More levers were manipulated and the heavens went through a violent upheaval. Once the sky was settled again into a placid course, the audience were told that they were looking upon the heavens that Galileo...
...daily turning of most of the planets on their own axes is slightly wobbly, made so by the gravity of their satellites, or moons. Earth and Neptune each have one moon. Mars has two, Uranus four, Saturn and Jupiter each nine. All the moons, like their planets, are visible by reflected Sun light. They move around their planets in the same direction as the planets turn on their polar axes. Exceptions are Saturn's moon called Phoebe and one of Jupiter's. Jupiter may have, also, a second contrary moon...
...Visible to the naked eyes of ancients were Mercury Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Although Aristarchus of Samos in the 3rd century B.C. had theorized that the planets revolved about the Sun, not until Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) did the World cease believing that they together with the Sun and Moon, both of which were considered planets, turned around the Earth...