Meanings of astronomical knowledge in English

Thus there was no scientific astronomical knowledge worth mentioning among the primitive Greeks.

In fact, the state of astronomical knowledge a century ago has undergone wonderful changes.

Finally, all men saw that astronomical knowledge lied not, and they awaited the comet.

We derive our mathematics from them; and to them, also, we owe much of our astronomical knowledge.

Recognition of Matariki is on the rise and along with it, a new appreciation of Maori astronomical knowledge.

His astronomical knowledge told him that on a certain night an eclipse of the moon would take place.

Eudoxus, who was born 406 B.C., may be considered the founder of scientific astronomical knowledge among the Greeks.

To these achromatic object glasses, as they are called, the great development of astronomical knowledge, since Newton's time, is due.

Photo: supplied Photo: supplied Recognition of Matariki is on the rise and along with it, a new appreciation of Māori astronomical knowledge.

Laplace and his contemporary, Sir William Herschel, had been the most fruitful contributors to astronomical knowledge since the days of Sir Isaac Newton.

It shows the ignorance of the age, and the superstitious awe which the common people entertained with respect to Columbus and his astronomical knowledge.

In order to attain the astronomical knowledge which they seem to have possessed, the Babylonians must undoubtedly have employed a certain number of instruments.

Glancing back over the ground, we see there is nothing implying astronomical knowledge, more than we would expect to find among a rude people.

This story, if true, recounts the earliest known circumnavigation of Africa, but also contains an interesting insight into the astronomical knowledge of the ancient world.

He makes some parade of astronomical knowledge as to the greatness of the sun and moon, but relapses soon into his old line of argument.

The evolution of astronomical knowledge, generally slow and gradual, offering little to excite the attention of the public, has yet been marked by two cataclysms.