Uranography

Given a clear atmosphere, and a little stimulus to the will from our love of truth and science, and the geography of the Heavens, or "uranography," will soon be as familiar to us as the geography of our terrestrial atom. ❋ Camille Flammarion (1883)

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. ❋ George Rawlinson (1857)

Neither the former nor the latter doctrine, however, is found in the fantastic uranography of the magician. ❋ Franz Cumont (N/A)

Religious uranography placed the residence of the supreme divinity in the most elevated region of the world, fixing its abode in the zone most distant from the earth, above the planets and the fixed stars. ❋ Franz Cumont (N/A)

Figulus, who was an ardent occultist, expounded the barbarian uranography in Latin. ❋ Franz Cumont (N/A)

Through the medium of the Greeks, they transmitted to the West their entire scheme of uranography, our familiar constellations having been substantially designed on the plain of Shinar about 2800 B.C. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

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. ❋ George Rawlinson (1857)

There is reason to believe that in the early Babylonian astronomy the subject of uranography occupied a prominent place. ❋ George Rawlinson (1857)

Heterogeneous elements, taken from all the religions of the Orient, were combined in the uranography of the ancients, and in the power ascribed to the phantoms that it evoked, vibrates in the indistinct echo of ancient devotions that are often completely unknown to us. [ ❋ Franz Cumont (N/A)

Fig. 2.], and belonging to the twelfth century before our era, is not perhaps, strictly speaking, a zodiac, but it is almost certainly an arrangement of constellations according to the forms assigned them in Babylonian uranography. ❋ George Rawlinson (1857)