Re: CHAT: Visible planets (was: Corpses)

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.

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