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Example sentences for "astronomer"

Lexicographically close words:
astrological; astrologically; astrologie; astrology; astronauts; astronomers; astronomiae; astronomic; astronomical; astronomicall
  1. Perk appeared beside the console, but the captain ignored the astronomer for a moment longer, while he leaned back thinking.

  2. After all, why should an astronomer be interested in Earth?

  3. The astronomer nodded, and the captain continued, "'Which is exerting about six hundred forty pound pressure against this satellite.

  4. They had but one child, a son, afterwards Sir John Herschel, almost as great an astronomer as his father had been before him.

  5. If you had asked some vulgar- minded neighbour of the great Sir William in his later days whether the astronomer had been a successful man or not, he would doubtless have answered, after his kind, "Certainly.

  6. From this he advanced to a ten-foot, and then to one of twenty, for he meant to see stars that no astronomer had ever yet dreamt of beholding.

  7. Without hesitation they appointed him astronomer and surveyor of the North-West Company.

  8. Astronomer Thompson's work was well mapped out for him.

  9. Astronomer Thompson only waited the departure of one of the Great Northern brigades to enter upon the duties of his new office.

  10. It is to be noted, however, that the Astronomer Thompson was wrong in making Turtle Lake the source of the Mississippi.

  11. Though too late to fulfil his mission, on July 15th the doughty astronomer and surveyor, in his canoe manned by eight men and having the British ensign flying, stopped in front of the new fort.

  12. Pushing southward in March, the astronomer ascended Red River to the trading post known as Upper Red River, near where the town of Grand Forks, North Dakota, stands to-day.

  13. Urged on by the Colonial Office, they again in 1791 organized an expedition to send Astronomer Philip Turnor to make the western journey.

  14. It is a curious fact that Lake Julia was the same lake surveyed twenty-five years before by astronomer Thompson.

  15. The astronomer next went to the Fort between the Swan and Assiniboine Rivers, near the spot where the famous Fort Pelly of the present day is situated.

  16. At nineteen he was appointed astronomer royal of Berlin.

  17. Somewhere in that section," the astronomer said, pointing.

  18. Come outside; I believe I can show you," an astronomer said.

  19. In the heavens only the astronomer with his prisms and telescopes traces them; only the geologist and palaeontologist read their history in the earth's crust.

  20. That there are cosmic dangers, though infinitely remote, every astronomer knows.

  21. The dotted coast-lines are inserted according to the astronomer De l'Isles Chart 1732.

  22. In St. Petersburg his brother instructed him in the elements of astronomy, sent him upon a surveying expedition to Lapland, and finally secured him a position as chief astronomer of Bering's second expedition.

  23. Though sitting up all night, especially in winter, doing all the duties of an assistant astronomer to her brother, she found time for a series of independent observations with a small Newtonian telescope, made for her by Sir William.

  24. Well might the poet exclaim-- "An undevout astronomer is mad.

  25. He is the first astronomer who is known to have taken the true view of the solar system.

  26. Aristarchus, the astronomer of Samos, most likely came to Alexandria in the last reign, as some of his observations were made in the very beginning of the reign of Philadelphus.

  27. Sosigenes was then the first astronomer in Egypt, and Julius Cæsar was guided by his advice in setting right the Roman Calendar.

  28. He proceeded to tell the new Astronomer Royal that he had a few days before writing witnessed a total eclipse of the sun in the observatory at Teheran.

  29. In ancient China, if the State astronomer made a wrong calculation in predicting an eclipse he was decapitated.

  30. Sir George's life was, as a matter of fact, spared, but in the course of a year he retired, and was succeeded by another Astronomer Royal.

  31. Sir George Airy was the Astronomer Royal, and showed the party over the building and gave them peeps through telescopes.

  32. I found the astronomer of the University gadding around after comets and other such odds and ends--tramps and derelicts of the skies.

  33. And while I was at it I thought I might as well make the reform complete; the astronomer is extraordinarily mutinous, and so, with your approval, I will transfer him to the law department and put one of the law students in his place.

  34. Munoz says the office of astronomer was not filled.

  35. The comet was not discovered in Europe till the 3d of October, when it was seen by Father de Vico, the celebrated astronomer at Rome.

  36. Astronomer Royal, has been substituted in this and in the 7th and 8th articles of the regulations.

  37. One astronomer had bound the scientific papers from America in green morocco, as typical of a country covered by forests.

  38. I informed him that Sir George Airy was the astronomer royal!

  39. Looking along this dark strip on the map, each astronomer selected his bit of darkness on which to locate the light of science.

  40. Captain Smyth entered with great readiness into the matter, and addressed a note on the subject to Mr. Airy, the Astronomer Royal, at Greenwich.

  41. An undevout astronomer is mad" was one of his favorite quotations.

  42. The regulations require that information of the discovery should be transmitted by the next mail to Mr. Airy, the Astronomer Royal, if the discovery is made elsewhere than on the continent of Europe.

  43. But Adams, having worked the problem, carried his work to Airy, the Astronomer Royal of England, and awaited his comments.

  44. When a great astronomer speaks about the stars, most of us put our hands upon our mouths and humble ourselves to listen.

  45. As an astronomer remarked, coming from a session with his telescope, "This does away with a six-foot god; you cannot shake hands with the Creator of this.

  46. It is not altogether astonishing that a fanciful astronomer should have thought Canopus to be actually the central star in the whole stellar system.

  47. At Stanford University another astronomer is concentrating the efforts of part of his laboratory on behalf of a similar idea.

  48. Through the instrumentality of the astronomer Secchi he was sent to the Jesuit college in Paris, and in 1868 obtained authorization to enter as a foreigner the marine college at Brest.

  49. He had seen the greatest astronomer of the age condemned to inactivity and helplessness, and could measure his own by the misery of Galileo.

  50. I knew from what I had previously learned that this gentleman was the greatest living astronomer on Jupiter.

  51. I looked into the eye-piece, managed to get the tube pointed accurately, and then requested the astronomer to focus the lenses so as to bear upon the planetary light in range.

  52. I was convinced that it was one of our large steamships, and as I so explained the astronomer looked at me with absorbing interest.

  53. This necessitated a consultation with the chief astronomer who, upon learning of my peculiar request and of my unnatural formation, hastened to the museum to see the monstrosity.

  54. As astronomer and astronomer there was no harm in their meetings; but as woman and man she feared them.

  55. When at the Cape, after hearing of your pursuits, I was much struck with the importance of those constellations to an astronomer just pushing into notice.

  56. The astronomer stretched out his arm, and the whole dome turned horizontally round, running on the balls with a rumble like thunder.

  57. I suppose our young astronomer is hard at work now,' said the Bishop, following the direction of Louis's glance towards the clear sky.

  58. Our friend the Bishop discovered, when we visited the observatory last night, that our astronomer was not alone in his seclusion.

  59. He lowered his voice, and added: 'I aim at nothing less than the dignity and office of Astronomer Royal, if I live.

  60. That she had a legitimate interest in him as a young astronomer was true; that her sympathy on account of his severe illness had been natural and commendable was also true.

  61. But the astronomer of the Rings-Hill Speer was no longer a match for his celestial materials.


  62. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "astronomer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.