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Urania   Listen
noun
Urania  n.  
1.
(Class. Myth.) One of the nine Muses, daughter of Zeus by Mnemosyne, and patron of astronomy.
2.
(Zool.) A genus of large, brilliantly colored moths native of the West Indies and South America. Their bright colored and tailed hind wings and their diurnal flight cause them to closely resemble butterflies.





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"Urania" Quotes from Famous Books



... medicine, astrology, and hermetics. Here alone is the truth." (As he spoke thus, he took from the top of the coffer a phial filled with the powder which we have mentioned above), "here alone is light! Hippocrates is a dream; Urania is a dream; Hermes, a thought. Gold is the sun; to make gold is to be God. Herein lies the one and only science. I have sounded the depths of medicine and astrology, I tell you! Naught, nothingness! The human body, ...
— Notre-Dame de Paris - The Hunchback of Notre Dame • Victor Hugo


Words linked to "Urania" :   muse, Roman deity


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