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Title: Androgyn
Original Title: Androgyne
Volume and Page: Vol. 1 (1751), p. 448
Author: Unknown
Translator: Naomi J. Andrews [Santa Clara University]
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Citation (MLA): "Androgyn." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Naomi J. Andrews. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2003. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0000.198>. Trans. of "Androgyne," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 1. Paris, 1751.
Citation (Chicago): "Androgyn." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Naomi J. Andrews. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0000.198 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Androgyne," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 1:448 (Paris, 1751).

Androgyn. Astrologers give this name to those planets that are sometimes warm and sometimes cold. Mercury, for example, is supposed to be dry and warm close to the sun, but damp and cold near the moon. See Aspect, see also Influence.