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uranography
[ yoor-uh-nog-ruh-fee ]
noun
- the branch of astronomy concerned with the description and mapping of the heavens, and especially of the fixed stars.
uranography
/ ˌjʊərənəˈɡræfɪk; ˌjʊərəˈnɒɡrəfɪ /
noun
- obsolete.the branch of astronomy concerned with the description and mapping of the stars, galaxies, etc
Derived Forms
- uranographic, adjective
- ˌܰˈԴDz, noun
Other yvlog Forms
- r·ԴDz۲· r·ԴDz۲· noun
- ··Դ·· [y, oo, r-, uh, -n, uh, -, graf, -ik], r·Դ·i· adjective
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of uranography1
Example Sentences
The communications remained in the possession of the society, and in 1867 Allan Kardec published them under the head General Uranography, in his work entitled Genesis.
Uranography, ū-ra-nog′ra-fi, n. descriptive astronomy, esp. of the constellations.—adjs.
This star has possessed a peculiar charm for me ever since boyhood, when, having read a description of it in an old treatise on Uranography, I felt an eager desire to see it.
Given a clear atmosphere, and a little stimulus to the will from our love of truth and science, and the geography of the Heavens, or "uranography," will soon be as familiar to us as the geography of our terrestrial atom.
In the time of Pompey, the senator Nigidius Figulus, who was an ardent occultist, expounded the barbarian uranography in Latin.
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