context: Pronounced as Symmetry (Greek: σημειωτικός, Semioticos, interpreter of signs) was first used in English by Henry Stubbles (1670, p. 75), a very brief term in the sense of directing the branch of medical science. John Locke uses the terms semiotic and symbology in Book 4, Chapter 21, Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690). Here he describes how science is divided into three parts:
question: Who was the first person to use the term symbology?
answers.text: Henry Stubbles