Uranology vs Astrology - What's the difference?
uranology | astrology |
(obsolete) the study of the heavens and heavenly bodies, also books about the subject.
Divination]] about human affairs or natural phenomena from the relative positions of [[celestial body, celestial bodies.
* c. 1390 , (Geoffrey Chaucer), Canterbury Tales , Harleian manuscript:
* 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 274:
* 2012 , The Guardian , (headline), 7 Feb 2012:
As nouns the difference between uranology and astrology
is that uranology is the study of the heavens and heavenly bodies, also books about the subject while astrology is divination about human affairs or natural phenomena from the relative positions of celestial bodies.uranology
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(wikipedia astrology)Noun
(en-noun)- a pore scoler / had lerned art but al his fantasye / was torned for to lerne astrologye […].
- For if astronomy is the study of the movements of the heavens, then astrology is the study of the effects of those movements.
- Followers of pseudosciences such as astrology often draw spurious parallels between their beliefs and established science.
