THE PLANETS

By

Hugh Thurston

Pages

Inner planets

What we see of Venus 1 to 2

Babylonians, Mayas, Chinese 2 to 4

Mercury 4 to 5

Outer planets

What we see 5

Babylonian treatment 5 to 8

Babylonian synodic arcs 9

Geometrical treatments

Eudoxus 10

Ptolemy 11 to 24

The Hindus 24 to 27

The Arabs 27 to 28

Modern comments 29 to 33