Who Discovered Mercury
The Solar System’s smallest and innermost planet is Mercury, named after the messenger and god of trade in Roman mythology (also known as Hermes in Greek mythology). Being the innermost planet, probing and observing Mercury is difficult, although it has been done. In fact, Mercury is actually part of the five classical planets, together with Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. This means that during the ancient times, people already knew it existed (since they were visible from the Earth).
Since Mercury is a classical planet, it isn’t possible to know who discovered the planet. There are people, of course, who made serious probes and discoveries regarding the planet. The earliest recorded document was made by a Babylonian astrologer and possibly written by an Assyrian astronomer. The Greeks, seeing the planet during the morning and evening sky, had a name for it. It was called Apollo during the morning and Hermes at night. However, they did not know the two stars were actually just one object. It was later during the 4th century that the Greeks discovered that Apollo and Hermes were the same.
The name could be attributed to the Romans, who named the planet after the messenger god due to its visibility (it can only be seen during very short periods). Of course, the penultimate observation was that of Galileo Galilee, who proved the claim of Nicolas Copernicus regarding the classical planets. It was actually the French philosopher Pierre Gassendi who saw the planet in transit, as Galileo’s telescope wasn’t strong enough to see as far as Mercury (he only saw Mercury, in part, when he observed Venus).
This is actually incorrect! The earliest known recognition of Mercury was known as “Sebkhu or Sbkhu”. The name for which the Ancient Kemetians gave the planet a couple thousand years before the Greeks named the planets. All there in the hieroglyphs!
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who discovered mercury like they said everything else but who discovered mercury
this didnt help at all
Is this true?
hermes is lukes father
Im sorry the people who discovered Mercury was Johann Galle and Hendrich D’ Arrest. ):
The Person In the Picture Is Nicholas Copernicus So Thats Him PERSON REVEALED !
THERE im 9 yrs old and i know that. no offence.
this will help me with my project
haha its hermes god of messengars
the title says who discovered mercury but it doesn’t say who really discovered it.
really helpful thx. aplus
This is not helpful at all sorry but i will give it 0 out of 10
I was like wat but then i came yo out my wanker lake of it in front of my eyes and on my keys lol
good work
Copernicus then Galileo confirmed it. 😉
who discovered it? :{
Seriously?
(WHO discovered Mercury? I agree with the fine man down there l)
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HISTORY!!!!
Cool! But do you know who discovered MERCURY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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waste. guys do you know who discovered mercury
This was okay, enough for an elementary project, but if you want some real answers, this isnt the website you should look at. Interesting facts on the Greeks, though.
stop complaining its useful
mercury is pretty small
Pshhh… yea rit.. i doesn’t say..!! oh i got an even better one! oh and coopieboy!, i can’t belive that u luv mercury!! and i will come to it if u live there! 🙂 xP
I love Mercury and laxin! i can’t wait till we can live on Mercury and eat some mac and cheese in the jag and we can go Laxin!!!
AND NO GIRLS ALLOWED!!!!
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This did NOt Help Me With My Project.! Who Dicovered Mercury Thats All I Wanna Know.!
does anyone know who discovered it?????????????
this website help me enough for my project and the text did say there was no official
person who discovered mercury so good job on the website!
WHO discovered Murcury? Don’t tell! Who is in the picture?
this website sucks! it didn’t help AT ALL!!
it was very vague as far the information. but for the facts I needed such as who discovered the planet and when it did not give clear facts. if you’re trying to go in depth with your research this website will not help.
this was kinda helpful i guess…. still didnt tell me thought! >:
THIS WEBSITE DID NOT HELP AT ALL! WHO SAW MERCURY!!!!!!!!!! 🙁
really it actually did tell who,french philosopher Pierre Gassendi. context clues people!
well in helped a little at least it gave me a little info for my project
it doesn’t say who discovered mercury
Did not help me at all!!!! I need some answers
not very helpful
this helped only cuz mercury wasnt offical by who “called” on it…
so best guess is Galileo cuz he was the first person to see it with a telescope
it makes me hung on the sky,, it didnt tell specifically who really discovered planet mercury
This was kinda helpful but it doesn’t tell me who discovered mercury….so i will give you an A-…..BYE.
DIDN’T HELP AT ALL
this is sorta helpful