wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason Spock <jedi_spock@>
> wrote:
> >
> > The Word Planet means Wanderer. The Ancient Greeks could
> distinguish between Planets and Stars.
>
> Of course they could. And so could farmers and
> sailors, anyone who needed to pay close attention
> to the sky night after night. There was nothing
> the least bit "occult" about it.
>
> Bob seems to think the way ordinary people told
> the difference between stars and planets was that
> the planets were *brighter*. Most of them are
> brighter, but that's not how people knew they were
> different.
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So the pole star with its fixed position would have been seen as a
planet.
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