Astronomy

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Astrology.

II. Astronomy ·noun A treatise on, or text-book of, the science.

III. Astronomy ·noun 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.

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