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1631 J. Booker (title) A new almanack and prognostication for the yeare of our Lord God, 1631... By Iohn Bowker, astrophile.

?1660 ‘Democritus Pseudomantis’ tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Prognostication To Rdr. sig. B2 I have rounded all the heavens, Calculated the squares of the Moon, pick'd out and discovered all that the Astrophils, Hypernephelists, Anemophylaces, Uranopetes, and Obrophores ever thought of.

1831 United Service Jrnl. ii. 310 Science, equally inimical to fanatics and mystics, offers them a tangled skein; while to the true Astrophiles she presents a clue which faithfully guides them through the labyrinth.

1903 Daily Chron. 6 June 5/2 Dr. Anderson..refuses..the name of astronomer... As he makes his observations with the naked eye from his own study window, with merely a pocket telescope..he prefers the name astrophil.

1936 S.P.E. Tract (Soc. for Pure Eng.) No. XIVI. xlvi. 204 If it be foolish for these astrophils to hitch their wagons (in Emerson's phrase) to this remotely glittering star, surely they cannot reasonably be supposed to inflict any serious damage on the solar system.

1982 B. Gottlieb tr. L. P. V. Febvre Probl. Unbelief 16th Cent. xi. 408 All of it was the work of distinguished astrologers and astrophiles, in the guise of scientists, who were richly entertained at the courts of great lords.

2005 E. S. Rabkin Mars 86 Although (Nicholas) Camille Flammarion (1842–1925) was usually called an astronomer, it would be more accurate to call him an astrophile.