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uraˈnology
Also 9 ouran-.
[See urano-1 a and -ology. Cf. Pg. uranologia.]
1. The study of the sidereal heavens; astronomy.
1735B. Martin Philos. Gram. 10 Cosmology or Uranology..treats of..the Universe in general, and particularly of our solar System. Ibid. 107 Of Uranology, or the Doctrine of the heavenly Bodies. 1740― Bibl. Techn. xvii. 325 Uranology..may be considered under the following branches: Heliography;..Astrography. 1792E. Sibly Occult Sci. I. 53 Uranology is a science which treats of the natural body of Heaven. 1816Bentham Chrestom. Table, Wks. 1843 VIII. 13/1 Acquaintance with Uranology, more frequently termed Astronomy.
b. A treatise or discourse on the sidereal heavens; a system of astronomy.
1736Bailey (folio) Pref., 41. Uranology,..a Treatise or Discourse of the..celestial Regions and the Bodies in them contained. 1854Owen in Orr's Circ. Sci., Org. Nat. I. 261 One must not strive to make an ouranology out of a system of metaphysics.
2. Doctrine as to heaven. rare—1.
1866Reader No. 170. 317/1 Angelology and uranology.
So † uraˈnologer, an astronomer; ˌuranoˈlogical a., of or pertaining to uranology.
1686Goad Celest. Bodies ii. i. 129 The Words of that great Uranologer John Kepler. 1816Bentham Chrestom. 55 Uranological Geography. 1851tr. Humboldt's Cosmos III. 29 The uranological portion of the physical description of the world. Ibid., The uranological..domain of the Cosmos. |