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Re: CHAT: Visible planets (was: Corpses)

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Monday, November 10, 2003, 22:28
Ray Brown scripsit:

> Yes, it seems the ancients generally had the correct insight. Certainly > when the days of the week were named this was so. We do never have > separate days assigned to Hesperos and Phosphoros - just the one day > assigned to Hermes/ Mercury.
To Venus, rather. As I said, Mercury is hard to see, although it does behave like Venus in the sense that it shifts between evening-only and morning-only visibility; *the* Evening and Morning stars are the planet Venus. -- John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan www.reutershealth.com "The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague." --Edsger Dijkstra

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