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uranography|jʊərəˈnɒgrəfɪ|
Also 7–8 (9) ourano-.
[ad. Gr. οὐρανογραϕία: see urano-1 and -graphy. Cf. F. (1762) uranographie, Sp. and Pg. uranografia.]
†1. A description of heaven. Obs. rare.
1650Fuller Pisgah ii. v. i. 189, I found the Canaan by him described no Geography, but Ouranography, no earthly truth, but mysticall prediction. 1710B. Jenks (title), Ouranography; or, Heaven opened. The Substance of Cardinal Bellarmine's Five Books concerning the Eternal Felicity of the Saints.
2. The science of describing or delineating the sidereal heavens; a description or delineation of the stars. Also transf.
α1675Sherburne Manilius' Sphere a ii, Constellations.. are distinguished into prophane and Sacred Figures or Morphoses, according to the different Uranography of the Antient Ethnicks. 1699Howe Redeemer's Dominion Wks. 1724 II. 85 When our Lord is said to have ascended far above all Heavens,..whose Uranography [will suffice] to describe how far that is? 1715tr. Gregory's Astron. I. 310 From hence did he [sc. Hevelius] deduce his Uranography or Tables of all the Stars. 1833Herschel Astron. 159 So in uranography, any conspicuous star may be selected as an initial point. 1890Science-Gossip XXVI. 102/1 An Uranography, or brief description of the constellations visible in the Northern Hemisphere..illustrated by star maps.
β1684in Birch Hist. Royal Soc. (1757) IV. 272 The ingenious Mr. Hooke, in his animadversions on Hevelius's ouranography. 1881tr. Verne's Fur Country 17 He had rendered great services to ouranography.
Hence uraˈnographer, one who practises or studies uranography; uranoˈgraphic(al adjs., of or pertaining to uranography; uraˈnographist, = uranographer.
1686Goad Celest. Bodies ii. xi. 316 He is as great as the Greatest *Uranographer can make him. 1861G. F. Chambers Astron. 313 Many of the above smaller constellations are..rejected by modern uranographers.
1715tr. Gregory's Astron. I. 310 These *Uranographic Schemes of the Constellations are delineated in Plano. 1855Tallis's Crystal Palace II. 245 Detouche and Houdin (France) exhibited a uranographic apparatus. 1882R. Brown Law Kosmic Order 52 A remarkable conical black Babylonian Stone.., which, though not strictly zodiacal, is certainly uranographic in character.
1833Herschel Astron. 179 The *uranographical effect of aberration. 1844N. Brit. Rev. I. 394 His whole stores of ouranographical and astronomical knowledge. 1861G. F. Chambers Astron. 273 The determination of the exact uranographical position of a star.
1731Bailey (vol. II), *Ouranographist,..an astronomer, or one who describes the heavens. 1812Southey Omniana II. 142 The great Swedish Ouranographist [sc. Swedenborg], whose discoveries were not always confined to heaven. |