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...male and φ for female without really knowing-or caring-why. To the incurious among them, the derivation of these symbols might have remained a mystery had not a curious reader of the British magazine New Scientist demanded an explanation. In a recent issue, Dr. William T. Stearn, a botanist at the British Museum (Natural History), tells how the symbols evolved...
Long before biology was born, says Stearn-who borrowed his explanations from a 17th century French scholar-the ancient Greeks gave human qualities to the planets. Mars, the red planet, was considered male, and the Greek word for Mars, Thouros, was abbreviated to "Th," or α. In the hands of careless and hasty penmen, this symbol eventually degenerated into δ. The same shorthand fate overtook the female planet, Venus, whose Greek name Phosphorus was reduced to Ph (Φ) and subsequently-perhaps by the same careless Grecians-to ø. When medieval alchemists came upon these symbols, they found them useful...
...PLANT to take place of proposed $107 million Dixon-Yates plant (TIME, July 25, 1955) will be financed through $154 million revenue bond issue by City of Memphis. Wall Street's Salomon Bros. & Hutzler heads marketing syndicate, expects to have bonds on sale before Jan. 1. Memphis' stearn electric plant will generate 812,500 kw., start operating...
...Carduffs are: Webb and Simonds p. Walsh and Stearn c, Wise 1b, Carduff 2b, Trynin 3b, Young ss, Robinson lf, Akillian cf, and Connolly...
Warshaw is one of a panel of three, including David Stearn 3L and Donald S. Connery '50, who have been beaming a weekly program for the past ten weeks over station WRUL to an estimated 25,000 English-speaking Europeans on U.N. topics...