Footnote 38
Part II, §12.  This `hour of the planet' is a mere astrological supposition, involving no point of astronomy.  Each hour is an `hour inequal', or the 12th part of the artificial day or night.  The assumptions are so made that the first hour of every day may resemble the name of the day; the first hour of Sunday is the hour of the Sun, and so on.  These hours may be easily found by the following method.  Let 1 represent both Sunday and the Sun; 2, Monday and the Moon; 3, Tuesday and Mars; 4, Wednesday and Mercury; 5, Thursday and Jupiter; 6, Friday and Venus; 7, Saturday and Saturn.  Next, write down the following succession of figures, which will shew the hours at once.
 
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Ex. To find the planet of the 10th hour of Tuesday.  Tuesday is the third day of the week; begin with 3, to the left of the upright line, and reckon 10 onwards; the 10th figure (counting 3 as the first) is 6, i.e. Venus.  So also, the planet of the 24th hour of Friday is the Moon, and Saturday begins with Saturn.  It may be observed that this table can be carried in the memory, by simply observing that the numbers are written, beginning with 1, in the reverse order of the spheres, i.e. Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon; and then (beginning again at the outmost sphere) Saturn, Jupiter, Mars.  This is why Chaucer takes a Saturday; that he may begin with the remotest planet, Saturn, and follow the reverse order of the spheres.  See fig. 10, Plate V.  Here, too, we have the obvious reason for the succession of the names of the days of the week, viz. that the planets being reckoned in this order, we find the Moon in the 25th place or hour from the Sun, and so on.