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Monad from the Greek word monos or μονάς (from the word μόνος, which means "one", "single", or "unique"), was a symbol referred by the Greek philosophers as "The First", "The Seed", "The Essence", "The Builder", and "The Foundation." They also called it "Unity." Source: "Divine Proportion" by Priya Hemenway, page 51.

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13 August 2006

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jossi (original) and bdesham

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	02:11, 23 December 2025	512 × 512 (215 bytes)	Grufo	Use better semantics and compress slightly more
	03:43, 6 March 2022	512 × 512 (227 bytes)	TSamuel	Lossless recompression via SVGOMG & vecta.io/nano, & verified via SVGCheck
	02:45, 11 September 2007	256 × 256 (3 KB)	Bdesham	trying again
	02:43, 11 September 2007	256 × 256 (3 KB)	Bdesham	removing whitespace around edges
	03:52, 14 August 2006	378 × 376 (14 KB)	Jossifresco	Updated
	03:47, 14 August 2006	471 × 470 (13 KB)	Jossifresco
	03:46, 14 August 2006	470 × 468 (14 KB)	Jossifresco	{{Information \|Description='''Monad''' from the Greek word ''monos'' or μονάς (from the word μόνος, which means "one", "single", or "unique"), was a symbol referred by the Greek philosophers as "The First", "The Seed", "The Essence", "The Builde