The lowest of the five planets, and nearest the earth, is that of Venus (called in Greek [Greek: Phosphoros]).

Before the rising of the sun, it is called the morning-star, and after the setting, the evening-star.

It has the same revolution through the zodiac, both as to latitude and longitude, with the other planets, in a year, and never is more than two[134] signs from the sun, whether it precedes or follows it.
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I cannot, therefore, conceive that this constant course of the planets, this just agreement in such various motions through all eternity, can be preserved without a mind, reason, and consideration; and since we may perceive these qualities in the stars, we cannot but place them in the rank of Gods.

Those which are called the fixed stars have the same indications of reason and prudence.