uranography

American  

[yoor-uh-nog-ruh-fee] / ˌyʊər əˈnɒg rə fi /

noun

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

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uranography British  

/ ˌjʊərənəˈɡræfɪk, ˌjʊərəˈnɒɡrəfɪ /

noun

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

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Other Word Forms

• uranographer noun
• uranographic adjective
• uranographical adjective
• uranographist noun

Etymology

Origin of uranography

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.

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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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In the time of Pompey, the senator Nigidius Figulus, who was an ardent occultist, expounded the barbarian uranography in Latin.

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