uranography
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- noun The branch of astronomy concerned with mapping the stars, galaxies, or other celestial bodies.
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.
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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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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.
Note
The word 'uranography' comes from Greek roots meaning 'sky' and 'writing'.
