What is "uranology"

Uranology \U`ra*nol"o*gy\, n. [Gr. ? heaven + -logy.] A discourse or treatise on the heavens and the heavenly bodies; the study of the heavens; uranography.

n. (context obsolete English) the study of the heavens and heavenly bodies, also books about the subject.

n. the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole [syn: astronomy]