The Planet Fortuna

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Mar 1905

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1905natur..71..511t&link_type=abstract

Nature, Volume 71, Issue 1848, pp. 511 (1905).

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ONE point of interest to Airy's brother men of science has not been noticed-that he either misunderstood or wilfully misapplied the lines of Juvenal. The ``Purists'' urged that planets had always been named after deities, and that Fortuna was not a deity. Airy said that she was, and quoted ``nos te, nos facimus, Fortuna, deam.'' What did Juvenal really say? He said, ``the wise see no divinity in Fortune; it is only human folly that calls her goddess, and assumes for her a place in heaven.'' As Gifford renders it:-

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