Editing Solar symbol (section)

=== Classical era ===
[[file:Sun symbol (late classical and medieval mss).png|thumb|The disk with a ray as a symbol for the Sun in late Classical (4th c.) and medieval Byzantine (11th c.) mss<ref name=jones-1999>{{cite book
| title = Astronomical papyri from Oxyrhynchus
| last = Jones
| first = Alexander
| date = 1999
| pages = 62–63
| publisher = American Philosophical Society
| isbn = 0-87169-233-3
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=8MokzymQ43IC}}</ref>]]

In the Greek and European world, until approximately the 16th century, the astrological symbol for the Sun was a disk with a single ray, [[File:Sun symbol (medieval).svg|24px|🜚]] ({{unichar|1F71A}}). This is the form, for example, in Johannes [[Kamateros]]' 12th century ''Compendium of Astrology''.<ref name=neugebauer-1987>{{cite book
| title = Greek Horoscopes
| url = https://archive.org/details/greekhoroscopesm00neug_004
| url-access = limited
| last1 = Neugebauer
| first1 = Otto
| last2 = Van Hoesen
| first2 = H. B.
| date = 1987
| pages = [https://archive.org/details/greekhoroscopesm00neug_004/page/n6 1], 159, 163
| isbn = 9780871690487
}}</ref>