In ancient Babylonian times, those in the know back then were aware of the planet Saturn… the one with the rings (although, now in modern times, it isn’t the only planet with rings).
Back then, they knew the planet by the name of Ninurta.
Around the same time, the ancient Greeks knew the planet by the name of Phainon.
The Romans knew it by the name of The Star Of Saturn… and it looks like this was the name to stick.
Several hundred years later, an Italian/French astronomer named Giovanni Cassini discovered a handful of moons and the division in Saturn’s rings.
And a few hundred years later still, he has a space probe named after him. Launched in 1997, the probe was the fourth to visit the ringed planet and the first to orbit it.
Here’s how Rembrandt may have painted him, had he been so inclined.
The Mansionic Perspective 
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