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> The popular "heart" is rather abstract and does not directly depict anything biological. My understanding is it depicts the leaves of the plant Silphium, whi
by bawolff 3y ago
> The popular "heart" is rather abstract and does not directly depict anything biological.
My understanding is it depicts the leaves of the plant Silphium, which in the ancient world was used as birth control.
- andrewflnr 3y agoHa, I forgot about that. Perhaps I overreached. IIRC that's rather speculative, though, still a bit abstract, and certainly not close to what we use it to represent today, so I don't think it helps the original analogy.