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Hebrew names of the planets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2011

Shay Zucker
Shay Zucker*
Affiliation:
Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel email: shayz@post.tau.ac.il
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Abstract

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I review in this paper the basic Hebrew planetary terminology. To complete the picture I accompany it with some historical and cultural context, and compare it to the planetary terminology in Arabic, the most widely spoken Semitic language.

Keywords

history and philosophy of astronomy

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