Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Dion Cassius” in chapter 4, entry dial of Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia:
...Genesis), and dates from the planting of man upon this sphere.
The nomenclature of the days, placing them under the regency of the planets, is ascribed to the Chaldeans by some of the ancients, but Dion Cassius (xxxvii.
18) says, with as great probability, that the Egyptians were the first to refer the days to the seven planets.
They used the hebdomadal division for certain religious observances, but al...
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