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. From Wordnik.com. [Astronomy for Amateurs] Reference
This branch of practical astronomy is termed "uranography" by moderns; its utility is very considerable; thus and thus only can we particularize the individual stars of which we wish to speak; thus and thus only can we retain in our memory the general arrangement of the stars and their positions relatively to each other. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 4. (of 7): Babylon The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.] Reference
Figulus, who was an ardent occultist, expounded the barbarian uranography in Latin. From Wordnik.com. [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference
Neither the former nor the latter doctrine, however, is found in the fantastic uranography of the magician. From Wordnik.com. [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference
Religious uranography placed the residence of the supreme divinity in the most elevated region of the world, fixing its abode in the zone most distant from the earth, above the planets and the fixed stars. From Wordnik.com. [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference
There is reason to believe that in the early Babylonian astronomy the subject of uranography occupied a prominent place. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 4. (of 7): Babylon The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.] Reference
Through the medium of the Greeks, they transmitted to the West their entire scheme of uranography, our familiar constellations having been substantially designed on the plain of Shinar about 2800 B.C. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference
The very system of uranography which maintains itself to the present day on our celestial globes and maps, and which is still acknowledged -- albeit under protest -- in the nomenclature of scientific astronomers, came in all probability from this source, reaching us from the Arabians, who took it from the Greeks who derived it from the Babylonians. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 4. (of 7): Babylon The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.] Reference
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