, the 4th day of the week, formerly consecrated by the inhabitants of the northern nations to Woden or Oden; who, being reputed the author of magic and inventor of all the arts, was thought to answer to the Mercury of the Greeks and Romans, in honour of whom the same day was by them called dies Mercurii; and hence it is denoted by astronomers by the character of Mercury .
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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