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Well... Ptolemy's Almagest was written about 149AD and the planetary names were the classical Greek versions of our modern names. Before that... Eudoxus gave a qualitative explanation of the naked-eye planetary orbits circa 360BC, also with Greco-roman names.
The Babylonian, Arab, Hindu and especially the Egyptian astronomies predate Eudoxus however the names used would have been fundamentally different, and you'd have to find a classics scholar that was also well educated in mathematics and astronomy to correlate the names; the Egyptian astronomical records destroyed in the fire at Alexandria (thanks, Romans) went back to at least 1200 BC.
Last edited by Wavytone; 06-06-2015 at 09:23 PM.
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