uranography

[ yoor-uh-nog-ruh-fee ]

noun

1. the branch of astronomy concerned with the description and mapping of the heavens, and especially of the fixed stars.

uranography

/ ˌjʊərənəˈɡræfɪk; ˌjʊərəˈnɒɡrəfɪ /

noun

1. obsolete.
   the branch of astronomy concerned with the description and mapping of the stars, galaxies, etc

Derived Forms

• uranographic, adjective
• ˌuraˈnographer, noun

Other Words From

• ura·nogra·pher ura·nogra·phist noun
• u·ra·no·graph·ic [y, oo, r-, uh, -n, uh, -, graf, -ik], ura·no·graphi·cal adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of uranography¹

From the Greek word ouranographía, dating back to 1640–50. See urano-, -graphy

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.

From Project Gutenberg

Uranography, ū-ra-nog′ra-fi, n. descriptive astronomy, esp. of the constellations.—adjs.

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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.

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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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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.

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