16 adjectives to describe astronomy

My senior class, generally small, say six, is received as a class, but in practical astronomy each girl is taught separately.

There's what we should be wanting from you: and as for nautical astronomy, poh, a man with your scientific habit would pick all that up in no time.'

From the time of Sir William Herschel the science of stellar astronomy, revealing the enormous distances of the starsnone of them really fixed, but all having real or apparent motionswas rapidly developed.

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.

THE THIRTEENTH HOUSE; lost chapter of spiritual astronomy, by the Master in the purple robe.

Out of the finger-counting have grown up book-keeping, geometry, mathematical astronomy and a knowledge of the higher curves.

"His discovery of the satellites of Jupiter," says Herschel, "gave the holding turn to the opinion of mankind respecting the Copernican system, and pointed out a connection between speculative astronomy and practical utility.

The tempting astronomy was open in her hand at the chapter Via Lactea.

No advance was made in theoretical astronomy for 260 years, the interval between Hipparchus and Ptolemy of Alexandria.

Colonel Rondon, neat, trim, alert, and soldierly, studied a standard work on applied geographical astronomy.

But a better astronomy recognized him as a fixed star, for he was unmistakable by that fitting Few whose verdict is both history and immortality.

Astrology was not incipient astronomy; nor was alchemy primitive chemistry; the end and aim in each case was wholly different.

He believes in witches and apparitions, as well as in judicial astronomy.'

After five months, however, an outbreak of plague drove him away, and he matriculated at Rostock, where he found little astronomy but a good deal of astrology.

Ptolemaic astronomy, as an explanation of planetary movements, proved its exhaustion by a liberal recourse to epicycles as the answer to all awkward objections; and philosophies show themselves moribund in an analogous way, by a monotonous pressing of some one hackneyed principle to a degree that makes common-sense revolt and fling the whole theory to the windschaff and grain indiscriminately.

Immense research and learning have been expended by modern critics to show the state of scientific astronomy among the Greeks.

16 adjectives to describe  astronomy