Who discovered the planet Venus?

Question

Which scientist Discovered the planet Venus and When?

Answer 1

Mr Venus, an Eastern European astronomer!

Nah

But I'll look it up!

It's always been easily seen ("Star light - star bright - the first star I see tonight..." NB it isn't a star, of course).

[Wikipedia]

As one of the brightest objects in the sky, Venus has been known since prehistoric times and from the earliest days has had a significant impact on human culture. It is described in Babylonian cuneiformic texts such as the Venus tablet of Ammisaduqa, which relates observations that possibly date from 1600 BC.

Venus was known in the Hindu Jyotisha since early times as the planet Shukra. In the West, before the advent of the telescope, Venus was known only as a 'wandering star'. Several cultures historically held its appearances as a morning and evening star to be those of two separate bodies. Pythagoras is usually credited with recognizing in the sixth century BC that the morning and evening stars were a single body, though he espoused the view that Venus orbited the Earth. When Galileo first observed the planet in the early 17th century, he found that it showed phases like the Moon's, varying from crescent to gibbous to full and vice versa.

Answer 2

Being one of the brightest objects in the sky, and easily distinguishable from the "fixed" stars by its motion against them, Venus has been known to be "not a star" since antiquity. No "scientist" discovered it.
The same goes for the other bright, naked-eye visible planets: Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn. Our word for "planet" comes from the Greek for "wanderer" -- the ancients called them that because they recognized their motion was different from the stars, and they seemed to "wander" among the stars.

Galileo gets credit for being the first human to actually see that these "wanderers" weren't points of light like the stars, but had disc shapes are were indeed other worlds like earth.

Answer 3

Venus is easily seen by the naked eye, so who or what first saw it would have been some primitive creature that had just evolved eyes and looked up at the night sky with them.

Answer 4

Venus has been observed since the dawn of man.

Answer 5

Venus was present and known in antiquity. It has no discoverer, just as the sun and moon have no discoverers.

Answer 6

The first animal with eyes to look up at the sky. Its' kind of hard to miss.

Answer 7

People have been able to see it clearly for so long that it has no known discoverer

Answer 8

European cave people discovered it in 812,449 BC.

Answer 9

any human