In the above example, the reference to stars shooting madly from their "spheres" was not in accordance with the then-accepted Greek astronomical belief that the stars all occupied the same sphere that surrounded the Earth as opposed to separate ones. While it was believed that additional ambient spheres existed, they were thought to contain the other bodies in the sky that move independently from the rest of the stars, i.e. the Sun, the Moon, and the planets that are visible to the naked eye (whose name makes its way into English from the Greek word "planetes", meaning "wanderers," as in the wandering bodies that orbited the Earth independently from the fixed stars in their sphere).