![]() ![]() The OED also cites a 1647 reference to the German astronomer Kepler for an astronomical/astrological meaning, an angle of 5/12 of a whole circle. The first citation for a geometric meaning, as "a pattern used for planting trees", dates from 1606. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) dates the first appearances of the Latin word in English as 15 ("in the sense 'five-twelfths of a pound or as '" i.e. However, these dots were not always arranged in a quincunx pattern. On the Roman quincunx coins, the value was sometimes indicated by a pattern of five dots or pellets. The quincunx was originally a coin issued by the Roman Republic c. 211–200 BC, whose value was five twelfths ( quinque and uncia) of an as, the Roman standard bronze coin. ![]()
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