when was saturn discovered and who discovered it
Saturn Saturn has been known since prehistoric times[116] and in early recorded history it was a major character in various mythologies. Babylonian astronomers systematically observed and recorded the movements of Saturn.[117] In ancient Roman mythology, the god Saturnus, from which the planet takes its name, was the god of agriculture.[118] The Romans considered Saturnus the equivalent of the Greek god Cronus.[118] The Greeks had made the outermost planet sacred to Cronus,[119] and the Romans followed suit. (In modern Greek, the planet retains its ancient name Cronus—Κρόνος: Kronos.)[120]