Planet planet Venus, that probably dates as early as the second millennium BC. The MUL.APIN is a pair of cuneiform tablets dating from the 7th century BC that lays out the motions of the Sun, Moon, and planets over the course of the year. The Babylonian astrologers also laid the foundations of what would eventually become Western astrology. The "Enuma anu enlil", written during the Neo-Assyrian period in the 7th century BC, comprises a list of omens and their relationships with various celestial phenomena including the motions of the planets. Venus, Mercury, and the outer planets Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn were
The Sun Saboteurs The action is mostly in a minor key, and the entire feel is both sad and bitterly cynical." The Sun Saboteurs The Sun Saboteurs is a 1961 science fiction novel by American writer Damon Knight. Its topic is expatriate Earthmen living on an alien planet, and their daily hardships in dealing with their status as a minority group among aliens. The story first appeared in 1955 in the form of a novella, entitled "The Earth Quarter", in "If" magazine . An expanded version was published by Ace in 1961, bound dos-à-dos with G. McDonald Wallis's "The Light of Lilith" as