→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 →How "Dick" came to be short for 'Richard': https://youtu.be/BH1NAwwKtcg?list=PLR0XuDegDqP2Acy6g9Ta7hzC0Rr3RDS6q Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut Where Does the Dollar Sign Come From? https://youtu.be/HhH-noY55mQ?list=PLR0XuDegDqP3-uys3Rl2dvdsFkk96zRbt What Does Rx Mean And Where Did It Come From? https://youtu.be/2eIxo2qABQE?list=PLR0XuDegDqP0GESJ0DgpgTcThLJVEbFs8 In this video: The symbols themselves are ancient, and the associations they make date back to the dawn of civilization. The ancients, after observing how the movements of heavenly bodies like the Sun and planets heralded a corresponding change in events on our planet, eventually came to believe that there was a causal relationship. Logically, then, ancient scholars began to study the heavens in order to better predict, and prepare for, the future. They also came to associate different heavenly bodies with their powerful gods- Mercury, Venus, Mars, Zeus (Jupiter) and Cronus (Saturn). Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/05/origin-male-female-symbols/ Sources: http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2597362944/tt0055719?ref_=tt_ov_i http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/342526/Carolus-Linnaeus/273183/Classification-by-natural-characters http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Carolus_Linnaeus.aspx http://www.qrd.org/qrd/www/orgs/avproject/symbols.htm http://www.theoi.com/Titan/Helios.html http://avalon100.tripod.com/Saturn.html http://bytesizebio.net/2012/03/08/the-origin-of-gender-symbols-in-biology/ http://www.timesdaily.com/archives/origin-of-male-female-symbols/article_8bc802ee-6ba0-5e33-83ae-58465bc33205.html http://web.bryant.edu/~ehu/h453proj/planets1/saturn.html http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1322246/ https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/scitech/display.cfm?ST_ID=525 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systema_Naturae
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