Crossword-Solution: ASTRONOMY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Astronomy | n. | Astrology. |
| Astronomy | 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. |
| Astronomy | n. | A treatise on, or text-book of, the science. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with ASTRONOMY (5)
Thales had studied astronomy in Egypt so he was able to draw up accurate tables forecasting when the River Nile would be in flood.
Banneker had educated himself, especially in mathematics and astronomy, and in 1789 he was one of those who helped to survey the District of Columbia.
And suppose we make astronomy the third--what do you say? I am strongly inclined to it, he said; the observation of the seasons and of months and years is as essential to the general as it is to the farmer or sailor.
But don’t fancy that all that frantic astronomy would make the smallest difference to the reason and justice of conduct.
The liberal arts (artes liberales, the higher arts, which, among the Romans, only freemen were permitted to pursue) were, in the Middle Ages, these seven branches of learning, Ð grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy.
Quotes with ASTRONOMY (3)
Each religion makes scores of purportedly factual assertions about everything from the creation of the universe to the afterlife. But on what grounds can believers presume to know that these assertions are true? The reasons they give are various, but the ultimate justification for most religious people’s beliefs is a simple one: we believe what we believe because our holy scriptures say so. But how, then, do we know that our holy scriptures are factually accurate? Because the…
Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the woods of our experience.
If the people of Europe had known as much of astronomy and geology when the bible was introduced among them, as they do now, there never could have been one believer in the doctrine of inspiration. If the writers of the various parts of the bible had known as much about the sciences as is now known by every intelligent man, the book never could have been written. It was produced by ignorance, and has been believed and defended by its author. It has lost power in the proportio…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, WP.
Used 20 times in crossword archives (1957–2023).