单词 | uranographer |
释义 | uranographern. Now chiefly historical. An expert in or practitioner of uranography. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > cosmology > astronomy > stars > [noun] > person uranographer1635 uranographist1731 1635 D. Person Varieties iv. 188 What advantage have our Vranographers, or our familiar describers of the heavens, made? 1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica ii. xi. 316 He is as great as the Greatest Uranographer can make him. 1861 G. F. Chambers Handbk. Descr. Astron. vii. vi. 313 Many of the above smaller constellations are..rejected by modern uranographers. 1864 R. Faurot Pilgrim's Progress i. 9 A small society was formed, of the most intelligent citizens, for the improvement of education and morals, and called ouranographers. These men built observatories, and wrote out what they saw in the heavens. 1910 G. P. Serviss Round Year with Stars 12 Her neighbor Pegasus also lays claim to the star, and uranographers..admit the justice of his claim. 1976 M. S. Peden tr. C. Fuentes Terra Nostra i. 295 Plotting their concentric circles, their excentric circles, and their epicycles, these false uranographers were incapable of discovering the shape of the earth, or its measure. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1635 |
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