Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The branch of astronomy concerned with mapping the positions of stars, galaxies, and other celestial bodies on the celestial sphere and with studying historical celestial maps.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That branch of astronomy which consists in the description of the fixed stars, their positions, magnitudes, colors, etc.; uranology. Also
ouranography .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A description or plan of the heavens and the heavenly bodies; the construction of celestial maps, globes, etc.; uranology.
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- noun astronomy, cartography Celestial
cartography ; the mapping ofcelestial bodies .
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
Astronomy for Amateurs Camille Flammarion 1883
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This branch of practical astronomy is termed "uranography" by moderns; its utility is very considerable; thus and thus only can we particularize the individual stars of which we wish to speak; thus and thus only can we retain in our memory the general arrangement of the stars and their positions relatively to each other.
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Religious uranography placed the residence of the supreme divinity in the most elevated region of the world, fixing its abode in the zone most distant from the earth, above the planets and the fixed stars.
The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism Franz Cumont
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Figulus, who was an ardent occultist, expounded the barbarian uranography in Latin.
The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism Franz Cumont
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Neither the former nor the latter doctrine, however, is found in the fantastic uranography of the magician.
The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism Franz Cumont
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Through the medium of the Greeks, they transmitted to the West their entire scheme of uranography, our familiar constellations having been substantially designed on the plain of Shinar about 2800 B.C.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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There is reason to believe that in the early Babylonian astronomy the subject of uranography occupied a prominent place.
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The very system of uranography which maintains itself to the present day on our celestial globes and maps, and which is still acknowledged -- albeit under protest -- in the nomenclature of scientific astronomers, came in all probability from this source, reaching us from the Arabians, who took it from the Greeks who derived it from the Babylonians.
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Heterogeneous elements, taken from all the religions of the Orient, were combined in the uranography of the ancients, and in the power ascribed to the phantoms that it evoked, vibrates in the indistinct echo of ancient devotions that are often completely unknown to us. [
The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism Franz Cumont
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Fig. 2.], and belonging to the twelfth century before our era, is not perhaps, strictly speaking, a zodiac, but it is almost certainly an arrangement of constellations according to the forms assigned them in Babylonian uranography.
she commented on the word uranography
A description of heaven (not, as it sounds, of urine.)
July 9, 2008
qroqqa commented on the word uranography
Pronunciation for the rest of us: yoo·ra·nog·ra·fee, i.e. /ˌjʊərəˈnɒgrəfi/.
in more recent use: a description of the constellations or stars
July 9, 2008
qms commented on the word uranography
Confusion is normal though comical;
It whispers the base anatomical,
But true uranology
Need blush no apology.
The action is all astronomical.
March 23, 2016