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| Keywords: Voyage in Space page157.png en Explanation of the ordering of the names of the days of the week after the heavenly bodies in Latin and derived languages Around the circle the bodies are ordered from Saturn in ascending order of speed of movement around the zodiac Each body was supposed to have supremacy for an hour at a time in this same order Thus if Saturn ruled the first hour of the first day the Sun would rule that of the second after 3 complete cycles and 3 hours over linked by the arrowed line the moon the third and so forth and these first-hour rulers gave their names to the days themselves A Voyage in Spacehttps //archive org/details/voyageinspacecou00turnrich Herbert Hall Turner 1913 1930 A Voyage in Space Astrology | ||||
