Also 9 ouran-. [See URANO-1 a and -(O)LOGY. Cf. Pg. uranologia.]
1. The study of the sidereal heavens; astronomy.
1735. B. Martin, Philos. Gram., 10. Cosmology or Uranology … treats of … the Universe in general, and particularly of our solar System. Ibid., 107. Of Uranology, or the Doctrine of the heavenly Bodies. Ibid. (1740), Bibl. Techn., xvii. 325. Uranology … may be considered under the following branches: Heliography;… Astrography.
1792. Sibly, Occult Sci., I. 53. Uranology is a science which treats of the natural body of Heaven.
1816. Bentham, Chrestom., Table, Wks. 1843, VIII. 13/1. Acquaintance with Uranology, more frequently termed Astronomy.
b. A treatise or discourse on the sidereal heavens; a system of astronomy.
1736. Bailey (folio), Pref., 41. Uranology,… a Treatise or Discourse of the … celestial Regions and the Bodies in them contained.
1854. Owen, in Orr’s Circ. Sci., Org. Nat., I. 261. One must not strive to make an ouranology out of a system of metaphysics.
2. Doctrine as to heaven. rare–1.
1866. Reader, No. 170. 317/1. Angelology and uranology.
So † Uranologer, an astronomer; Uranological a., of or pertaining to uranology.
1686. Goad, Celest. Bodies, II. i. 129. The Words of that great Uranologer John Kepler.
1816. Bentham, Chrestom., 55. Uranological Geography.
1851. trans. Humboldt’s Cosmos, III. 29. The uranological portion of the physical description of the world. Ibid. The uranological … domain of the Cosmos.
