History of astronomy
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Astronomy (also uranology, but now an obsolete word[1]) is the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole.
From this perspective, the study of celestial bodies can be reasonably said to have begun when at some point humanity looked up and began to observe the moon and the stars and the planets regardless of how they may have thought of them.
- ↑ Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G & C. Merriam, 1913