carl linnaeus came up with the male and female symbols.
carl linnaeus came up with the male and female symbols.
who came up with the male and female symbols?
carl linnaeus
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a common symbol used to represent the female sex is ♀ (unicode: u+2640 alt codes: alt+12), a circle with a small cross underneath. according to schott, the most established view is that the male and female symbols "are derived from contractions in greek script of the greek names of these planets, namely thouros (mars) and phosphoros (venus). these derivations have been traced by renkama who illustrated how greek letters can be transformed into the graphic male and female symbols still recognised today." thouros was abbreviated by θρ, and phosphoros by φ, both in the handwriting of alchemists so somewhat different from the greek symbols we know. these abbreviations were contracted into the modern symbols.
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