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The Greek letter Zeta with an abbreviation stroke, for Ζεύς(Zeús), the Greek equivalent to the Roman god Jupiter.[1] The form changed from Classical and early Medieval ⟨Ƶ⟩ to one with a more salient cross, ⟨♃⟩, in the 15th–16th century, at about the time that Christian crosses were added to ⟨☿⟩, ⟨♀⟩ and ⟨♄⟩, and so may have had a similar motivation.
1650, Paracelsus, “Of the Nature of Things”, in John French, transl., A New Light of Alchymie, page 74:
If thou wilt turne ♄ into ♃ make plates of ♄, ſtrow them with Salt Armoniack, cement, and melt them, as aboveſaid, ſo will all the blackneſſe, and darkneſſe bee taken away from the Lead, and it will be in whiteneſſe like fair Engliſh Tin.
1701, Johann Christoph Sommerhoff, Lexicon pharmaceutico-chymicum latino-germanicum & germanico-latinum [Pharmaceutico-Chemical Lexicon, Latin–German and German–Latin], page 399:
Arte ſivè Chymice parata: ut Vitriolum ♃vis, ☽næ, ♂tis, ☉lis, ♀ris
Those prepared by art or chemically: as vitriol of Jupiter, of the Moon, of Mars, of the Sun, of Venus
May 18 Ideam solutionis perfeci Nempe æqualia duo salia elevant ♄ Dein hic elevat lapidem, nec non cum Iove malleabili conjunctus fit 🝏 idque in tali proportione ut ♃ sceptrum apprehendat. Tunc aquila ♃em attollet., Isaac Newton, Cambridge, Portsmouth Add. MS. 3975 (alchemical notebook):
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May 18 I came up with an idea of the solution, namely, two equal salts elevate Saturn, then this elevates the stone, and also conjoined with malleable Jove it becomes the scepter of Jove and this in such a proportion that Jupiter seizes the scepter. Then the eagle raises up Jupiter.