Synonyms:
astronomy, uranology
Meaning: the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole
Usage examples
This great publication marks an era in astronomy.
This test, however, is one that only astronomy can meet in any remarkable degree.
Prediction is no novelty in science; and in astronomy least of all is it a novelty.
For astronomy in those days seems to have ranked as a minor science, like mineralogy or meteorology now.
Astronomy is so clear and so thoroughly explored now, that it is difficult to put oneself into a contemporary attitude.
In science the Irish scholars were famous for their knowledge of Geometry, Arithmetic, Astronomy, Music, Geography, and so forth.
It proved to be a small pamphlet treatise on Speculative Astronomy, written either by Professor Encke of Berlin or by a Frenchman of somewhat similar name.
The science of the weather, the succession of winds and rain, sunshine and frost, clouds and fog, is now very much in the condition of astronomy before Kepler.
It is said that in all the thousands of years since it was built not a single fact in astronomy or mathematics has been discovered to contradict the wisdom of those who constructed it.
Photography has given us proofs of the incomparable beauty of our satellite; all is known regarding the moon which mathematical science, astronomy, geology, and optics can learn about her.