uranometrian.
/ˌjʊərənə(ʊ)ˈmiːtrɪə/, /ˌjɔːrənə(ʊ)ˈmiːtrɪə/, U.S. /ˌjʊrənəˈmitriə/ = uranometry n. 1. Chiefly in the titles of works.
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uranoscopy1590
Urania1616
uranometry1660
uranography1675
uranometria1675
uranology1735
1675 E. Sherburne in tr. M. Manilius Sphere App. 87 Bayerus adding thereto a new and more accurate Uranometria.
1851 Monthly Notices Royal Astron. Soc. 11 195 The difference..arises from the frequency with which Lalande has assigned the 6th magnitude to stars not contained in Argelander's Uranometria, and certainly not ordinarily visible to the naked eye.
1885 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 841/1 Sir John [Herschel]..did not go on to the formation of a complete ‘uranometria’.
1976 Bull. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 30 32 Tycho Brahe was able to make unusually accurate observations of the 1572 supernova which appear in his Uranometria among much unreadable speculation about the causes..of the star's sudden brightness.
2000 S. R. Coe Deep-sky Observing (2002) vii. 67 A wide-angle field in the main instrument will be about one square degree on a Uranometria or other deep star chart.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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