Astrognosy

Quick meaning: Astrognosy is a noun meaning (astronomy, archaic) Knowledge of the stars, especially the fixed stars; the branch of astronomy dealing with the fixed stars.

Meaning

(astronomy, archaic) Knowledge of the stars, especially the fixed stars; the branch of astronomy dealing with the fixed stars.

Example Sentences

The uranological, when opposed to the telluric domain of the Cosmos, may be conveniently separated into two divisions, one of which comprises astrognosy, or the region of the fixed stars, and the other our solar and planetary system.

Furthermore, it is to the Chaldean astrolatry that modern astrognosy owes its progress, and it is the astronomical calculations of the Magi that became the ground-work of our present mathematical astronomy and have guided discoverers in their researches.

It is curious at least, that his Philosophy obliged Pythagoras, to make the Solar System #61;10, tho' his imperfect Astrognosy reduced him to the shift of including the moon, and imagining an Antiχθων ["anti-earth, anti-world"] and taking the whole as a completory Unit—Sun, Mer[cury,] Ven[us,] Earth, Moon, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Antichthon #61;9#43; Solar Syst[em] #61;1#61;10

In this balance sheet, "cosmos" and "universe" are no longer simple oppositions to one another but rather connected to one another through a complex economy of compensation: the form a system or a partnership, perhaps even a kind of "friendship." […] In this system, [Alexander von] Humboldt's Cosmos becomes the figure of a large project that places the astrognosy of the universe in the service of terrestrial responsibilities.

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