In the old astronomy (as explained more fully in the note to B.
The old astronomy supposed the centre of the earth to be the fixed centre of the universe.
The old astronomy imagined nine spheres revolving round the central stationary earth; of the seven innermost, each carried with it one of the seven planets, viz.
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Fellow and Tutor of St. John's College, was elected Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry, vice Sir Robert Ball, deceased.
President of the Institute of Actuaries; actuarial adviser of the Indian Government, and also of the British Government in respect of the cost of the Insurance Act of 1911; had done important work also in astronomy and Egyptology.
Astronomy began as Astrology; and when Trade began there must have been even more trickery about it than there is now.
Let us forget that this system of astronomy has been overthrown, and that we now know that Man is not the centre of the universe.
It was the old week of Babylon, the original home of astronomy and planet-worship.
Stoicism, like much of ancient thought at this period, was permeated by the new discoveries of astronomy and their formation into a coherent scientific system, which remained unshaken till the days of Copernicus.
It was doubtless during the supremacy of the ancient Cushite race that a knowledge of astronomy was developed and that the arts of life were carried to a high degree of perfection.
Of this cycle, Bailly says: "No person could have invented the Neros who had not arrived at much greater perfection inastronomy than we know was the state of the most ancient Assyrians, Egyptians, and Greeks.
She hid the papers and the astronomy text which she found in the Old Village.
This was the reality of the charts she had seen in the astronomy text: that knowledge alone saved her sanity.
Yet the clock-work logic of astronomy appealed to her orderly mind.
He laid the foundation of astronomy upon a scientific basis.
Astronomy was probably born in Chaldaea as early as the time of Abraham.
But the Greeks after all were the only people of antiquity who elevated astronomy to the dignity of a science.
The earliest historic name associated with astronomyin Greece was Thales, the founder of the Ionic school of philosophers.
Astronomy is therefore the oldest of the ancient sciences, although it remained imperfect for more than four thousand years.
Immense research and learning have been expended by modern critics to show the state of scientific astronomy among the Greeks.
Bailly thinks that thirty-one hundred and two years before Christ astronomy was cultivated in Siam which hardly yields in accuracy to that which modern science has built on the theory of universal gravitation.
Delambre's History of Ancient Astronomy has long been a classic, but is richer in materials for a history than a history itself.
He regarded astronomy as more intimately connected with mathematics than any other branch of science.
The Eastern astronomers connected their astronomy with divination from the stars, and made their antiquity reach back to two hundred and seventy thousand years.
All we know is that astronomy was cultivated by both Babylonians and Egyptians, and that they made but very limited attainments.
Astronomy made no progress for three hundred years, although it was expounded by improved methods.
Eudoxus, in the fifth century before Christ, contributed to science by making a descriptive map of the heavens, which was used as a manual of sidereal astronomy to the sixth century of our era.
But he combined with this determination a theory of epicycles and eccentrics which modern astronomy discards.
It corresponds with the method pursued in our elementary works on astronomy (and which is so admirable in a mathematical point of view), of proceeding from the apparent to the real movements of the heavenly bodies.
Physical astronomy presents us with other phenomena, which can not be fully comprehended in all their vastness without a previous acquirement of general views regarding the forces that govern the universe.
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Watson, '57, to succeed him as Professor of Astronomyand Director of the Observatory.
Adams in his memorial address on Professor Watson said: "During the senior year the Professor of Astronomy lectured to Watson alone.
Brünnow, a graduate of the University of Berlin, as Professor of Astronomy and Director of the new Observatory.
Every one who is but moderately acquainted with astronomy is familiar with the discoveries which that science owes to him; the manner in which he made them is, perhaps, not so generally known.
These, methinks, were reasons enough why I should have overlooked not only your letters, but even astronomy itself.
In order that the language of his astronomy may be understood, it is necessary to mention briefly some of the older theories.
One of the best and most popular teachers of navigation and nautical mathematics and astronomy in England is a lady, Mrs. Janet Taylor.
Miss Harriet Bouvier (now Mrs. Peterson) has written a very good work on astronomy for schools.
In his view Aristotle was the founder and perfecter of science; yet he showed an independent knowledge of physics and chemistry, and wrote on astronomy and medicine as well as philosophy.
Syntaxis, which summarized what was known in astronomy at that time.
The history of astronomyhas nothing to record of scientific accomplishment on the part of the Romans.
The fact thatastronomy in Egypt as in Babylonia, where the temples were observatories, was closely associated with religion confirms the view that this science was first cultivated because of its bearing on the practical needs of the people.
Hindu arithmetic andastronomy had found their way into Persia.
In the fourth century and at the beginning of the fifth, Theon and his illustrious daughter Hypatia commented on and taught the astronomy of Ptolemy.
The mathematical knowledge of the Babylonians is related on the one hand to their astronomy and on the other to their commercial pursuits.
The Babylonian records of medicine like those of astronomy reveal the prevalence of many superstitious beliefs.
I feel," observed M'Nicholl, "as if I had been listening to a lecture on Astronomy in the Star course.
The important law of gravitation in physical astronomy could never have been demonstrated but by such observations and experiments as assigned accurate geometrical measures to the quantities compared.
De la Lande makes a similar confession in his Astronomy (vol.
Astronomy and inflation: and by inflation we mean expansion of the attenuated.
But that the science ofAstronomy suffered the slightest in prestige?
Or that the science of Astronomy is a phantom-film distended with myth-stuff--but always our acceptance that it approximates higher to substantiality than did the system that preceded it.
Astronomy was opposed by the Church because it unsettled old notions of the earth being the centre of the universe, and the sun, moon, and stars mere lights stuck in the solid firmament, and worked to and fro like sliding panels.
But perhaps it only exists in the geography or astronomyof faith.
We can discuss astronomywith him; you will find him very interesting.
Yes," answered the Chemist, "based on astronomy the same as in your world.
Astronomy has shown us our ignorance of the substances, or materials, of our own little globe.
Our purblind astronomy and prattling geology may be as inadequate to expound the mysteries of the Bible philosophy as was the incoherent science of Strabo and Ptolemy.
Infant astronomy stretched out her hands to catch the stars, and count them.
Scientific astronomy inexorably demolishes the Atheistic scheme for the arrangement of the solar system by accident, commonly known as Buffon's cosmogony.
Astronomy not only exposes the folly of past cosmogonies, but demonstrates the impossibility of framing any true theory of creation, and thus refutes all future cosmogonies.
Astronomy will never teach men how to make worlds; nor is it of the least consequence that it does not; since we could not make them, even if we knew how.
And yet, because we had traced one of these, we have deemed our astronomy complete!
In the last chapter we saw astronomy demonstrating our need of a revelation from God.
Astronomy finds in those eyes Better light than she studies above; And Music would borrow your sighs As the melody fittest for Love.
Sir George Cornwall Lewis, Historical Survey of theAstronomy of the Ancients (London, 1862).
This work brought to bear Gama’s great learning to the interpretation of these relics, and to an exposition of the astronomy and mythology of the ancient Mexicans, in a way that secured the commendation of Humboldt.
Clerke, entitled the "History of Astronomy during the Nineteenth Century," for the following memoranda of some of the work accomplished by these men.
So rare are predictions of this nature in the history of astronomy that this instance will probably be quoted to the end of time.
The little interest Professor Newcomb has taken in the subject is well expressed in his late book "Astronomy for Everybody.
It is upon this prin- ciple that God allows geology to laugh at Genesis, that he permits astronomy apparently to contradict his holy word.
They reject the science of the Bible, and hold in utter contempt the astronomy of Joshua, and the geology of Moses.
Mr. Newcomb has written a work on astronomy that all ministers ought to read.
Besides the ordinary studies of the monastic scholar, he devoted himself to mathematics, astronomy and music, and constructed watches and instruments of various kinds.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "astronomy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
