The Planet Saturn and the Persistence of Time
By Thea Wirsching
Ancient people gazing up at the night sky knew Saturn as a yellow-white pinprick of light defining the outer reaches of the cosmos. But how were they able to gauge Saturn’s relative distance from the other planets and from the Earth? Claudius Ptolemaeus, the second-century Greek astronomer born in Roman-ruled Egypt, reasoned that Saturn’s lumbering, flat-footed gait elected it the outermost planet in the geocentric universe. In other words, time was both the measure of Saturn’s extremity as well as its defining feature.
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