(n.) The science which treats of the celestial bodies, of their magnitudes, motions, distances, periods of revolution, eclipses, constitution, physical condition, and of the causes of their various phenomena.
(n.) A treatise on, or text-book of, the science.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since 1930 Dr. Rakowiecki has started as self-taught astronomy studies becoming soon one of seven most eminent Polish astronomers.
(2) "When I was a boy, I was doing both music and science: I belonged to an astronomy club, we built telescopes, we looked at the stars.
(3) Over a crest in the road was the cause of the electronic silence: the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), an array of radio telescopes set against the indigo vastness of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
(4) His scientific achievements based on higher mathematics included 20 important reports on astronomy and several monographs on mathematics.
(5) That robs astronomy of one of its key recruiting tools: the chance to plant young scientists under the dish and let its hum capture their imagination.
(6) September 16, 2015 The White House said Ahmed was invited to participate in an astronomy night next month.
(7) Ekers said the scholarship was put in place “to remedy this increasing gap where astronomy departments are not teaching people to build telescopes”.
(8) Thejll's study has been accepted for publication in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics.
(9) And I think also something like the recent Star Gazing Live on BBC2, the astronomy show stretched nightly across a single week, was an example of great, creative commissioning, where time and space, literally, was entrusted to a group of individuals and experts, at a risk it could all fall flat, but given encouragement and profile – and in the garnering, great viewing figures and rewards.
(10) Rameau reminded his readers that mathematics is as important in music as it is in astronomy, and saw no conflict between the charts and formulae that fill his treatise and his ravishing operas and instrumental music.
(11) "If we don't continue to encourage people who understand the technology as well as the astronomy, it's going to be very hard to move forward in the future,” he said.
(12) A senior scientist within the CSIRO’s astronomy division, Dr Bärbel Koribalski, said the suspension of the Bolton Fellowship and the looming staff cuts had put “a dampener on our motivation and spirit, and they come as a big surprise overall”.
(13) At last it’s summer, that precious season in the academic calendar when the days start early and end late because of astronomy and not the demands of the job.
(14) Scientists from fields as diverse as neuroscience, astronomy, robotics, immunology, particle physics, sustainable agriculture, molecular biology, nanotechnology, cancer and photon therapy say a “Brexit” would lead to funding cuts , make recruiting and retaining top academic talent harder, and – crucially – cripple the cross-border collaboration on which research thrives.
(15) Feain said the fellowship was “bringing in very good people, we’ve had some excellent international Boltons, and in the astronomy world, it’s recognised all around the world”.
(16) A childhood ambition to be an astronaut led to a degree in astronomy but he dropped out (“far more theoretical than I had expected”) returning to complete a 2:2 in economics at University College, London.
(17) They give us a glimpse of the impressive knowledge of pre-Columbian mathematics and astronomy.
(18) Mayer's achievements in the fields of mathematics, physics, astronomy and cartography were recently summarized by the extensive historical research of G.F. Forbes.
(19) These outposts of Neolithic astronomy, although impressive, were nevertheless peripheral, says Richards.
(20) In between winning three Oscars , having four children, keeping bees and studying music, Murch recently investigated new links between the architecture of the Pantheon, the work of Copernicus and the origins of heliocentrism in western astronomy.
Universe
Definition:
(n.) All created things viewed as constituting one system or whole; the whole body of things, or of phenomena; the / / of the Greeks, the mundus of the Latins; the world; creation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Behind her balcony, decorated with a flourishing pothos plant and a monarch butterfly chrysalis tied to a succulent with dental floss, sits the university’s power plant.
(2) The various evocational changes appear to form sets of interconnected systems and this complex network seems to embody some plasticity since it has been possible to suppress experimentally some of the most universal evocational events or alter their temporal order without impairing evocation itself.
(3) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
(4) Peripheral vascular surgery has become an increasingly common mode of treatment in non-university, community hospitals in Sweden during the last decade.
(5) Another interested party, the University of Miami, had been in talks with the Beckham group over the potential for a shared stadium project.
(6) The Department of Herd Health and Ambulatory Clinic of the Veterinary Faculty (State University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) has developed the VAMPP package for swine breeding farms.
(7) Migrant voters are almost as numerous as current Ukip supporters but they are widely overlooked and risk being increasingly disaffected by mainstream politics and the fierce rhetoric around immigration caused partly by the rise of Ukip,” said Robert Ford from Manchester University, the report’s co-author.
(8) "The proposed 'reform' is designed to legitimise this blatantly unfair, police state practice, while leaving the rest of the criminal procedure law as misleading decoration," said Professor Jerome Cohen, an expert on China at New York University's School of Law.
(9) Results demonstrate that the development of biliary strictures is strongly associated with the duration of cold ischemic storage of allografts in both Euro-Collins solution and University of Wisconsin solution.
(10) From 1978 to 1983 in the Orthopedic University Clinic (Oskar-Helene-Heim, Berlin) 75 children with fractures of the distal humerus received medical treatment.
(11) We report a retrospective study of 107 cases of carcinoma of the sigmoid colon and upper rectum treated for primary cure at the University of California at Los Angeles Hospital between 1955 and 1970.
(12) A previous trial into the safety and feasibility of using bone marrow stem cells to treat MS, led by Neil Scolding, a clinical neuroscientist at Bristol University, was deemed a success last year.
(13) The records of all patients treated for thymoma in the Department of Radiotherapy of the University of Torino between 1970 and 1988 were reviewed.
(14) Blood gas variables produced from a computed in vivo oxygen dissociation curve, PaeO2, P95 and C(a-x)O2, were introduced in the University Hospital of Wales in 1986.
(15) Of 3,837 canine neoplasms from case records at Kansas State University, only 4 were of carotid body tumors.
(16) Type I and Type II mast-cell degranulation was noted but was not universal.
(17) By using polymerase chain reaction (PCR), we have developed a system for type-specific as well as universal detection of genital human papillomaviruses (HPVs).
(18) Urban hives boom could be 'bad for bees' What happened: Two professors from a University of Sussex laboratory are urging wannabe-urban beekeepers to consider planting more flowers instead of taking up the increasingly popular hobby.
(19) Her novels have an enduring and universal appeal and she is recognised as one of the greatest writers in English literature.
(20) The autopsy findings in 41 patients with University of Cape Town aortic valve prostheses were studied.