Crossword-Solution: URANOGRAPHY 11 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 20

Normal School, Englewood, Ill.: "It is a most excellent manual, and I believe it meets the needs of high schools on this subject better than any other book I have seen." YOUNG'S LESSONS IN ASTRONOMY Including Uranography.

The most important change in the arrangement of the book has been in bringing the Uranography, or constellation tracing, into the body of the text and placing it near the beginning, a change in harmony with the accepted principle that those whose minds are not mature succeed best in the study of a new subject by beginning with what is concrete and appeals to the senses, rather than with the abstract principles.

This branch of practical astronomy is termed “uranography” by moderns; its utility is very considerable; thus and thus only can we particularize the individual stars of which we wish to speak; thus and thus only can we retain in our memory the general arrangement of the stars and their positions relatively to each other.

There is reason to believe that in the early Babylonian astronomy the subject of uranography occupied a prominent place.

The very system of uranography which maintains itself to the present day on our celestial globes and maps, and which is still acknowledged--albeit under protest--in the nomenclature of scientific astronomers, came in all probability from this source, reaching us from the Arabians, who took it from the Greeks who derived it from the Babylonians.