who discovered saturn and when was it discovered
Saturn Saturn has been known since prehistoric times[113] and in early recorded history it was a major character in various mythologies. Babylonian astronomers systematically observed and recorded the movements of Saturn.[114] In ancient Roman mythology, the god Saturnus, from which the planet takes its name, was the god of agriculture.[115] The Romans considered Saturnus the equivalent of the Greek god Cronus.[115] The Greeks had made the outermost planet sacred to Cronus,[116] and the Romans followed suit. (In modern Greek, the planet retains its ancient name Cronus—Κρόνος: Kronos.)[117]