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urania
(redirected from Muse of astronomy)

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Urania (yrā`nēə): see Aphrodite Aphrodite , in Greek religion and mythology, goddess of fertility, love, and beauty. Homer designated her the child of Zeus and Dione. Hesiod's account of her birth is more popular: she supposedly rose from the foam of the sea where Uranus' genitals had fallen after
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; Muses Muses, in Greek religion and mythology, patron goddesses of the arts, daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne. Originally only three, they were later considered as nine.
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urania [yə′rā·nē·ə]
(inorganic chemistry)

Urania
muse of astrology. [Gk. Myth.: Brewer Dictionary, 1119]
See : Astrology

Urania
muse of astronomy. [Gk. Myth.: Jobes, 374]
See : Astronomy

Urania
Muse of astronomy. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 284]


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Urania, Muse of Astronomy and Trained Monkey Geniuses You know what they say: Absence makes the heart grow fonder
King refers to these as being references to the Muse of Astronomy, which is classically correct; but he does not note that Milton, in Paradise Lost (VII.
That the first Italian prose romance authored by a woman bears the same title as the first such work written in English is more than likely an intriguing coincidence, given the mythological significance of Urania as muse of astronomy, and thus, through Platonism, as the heavenly Venus contrasted in both Plato and Ficino with her earthly counterpart, or as the fixed and constant star metaphorically linked (in Philip Sidney, at least) to the matrimonially-inclined woman.
 
 
 
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