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A variety of symbols or iconographic conventions are used to represent Earth, whether in the sense of planet Earth, or the inhabited world, or as a classical element.A circle representing the round world, with the rivers of Garden of Eden separating the four corners of the world, or rotated 45° to suggest the four continents, remains a common pictographic convention to express the notion of ...
Miscellaneous Symbols is a Unicode block (U+2600–U+26FF) containing glyphs representing concepts from a variety of categories: astrological, astronomical, chess, dice, musical notation, political symbols, recycling, religious symbols, trigrams, warning signs, and weather, among others.
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Planetary symbols are used in astrology and traditionally in astronomy to represent a classical planet (which includes the Sun and the Moon) or one of the modern planets. The classical symbols were also used in alchemy for the seven metals known to the ancients, which were associated with the planets, and in calendars for the seven days of the week associated with the seven planets.
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standardizing sizes of astronomical symbols across the board: 19:01, 30 August 2006: 200 × 345 (1 KB) Justinlebar: The astronomical symbol of the planet Saturn. This SVG is a trace of the symbol as displayed by the font Arial Unicode MS Regular. Saved in Adobe Illustrator CS2. {{pd-ineligible}} Category:Planet symbols Category:Saturn
One symbol, ♇, is a monogram of the letters PL (which can be interpreted to stand for Pluto or for astronomer Percival Lowell), was announced with the name of the new planet by the discoverers on May 1, 1930. [11] Another symbol, popularized in Paul Clancy's American Astrology magazine, is based on Pluto's bident: . [12]
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