Urania

Urania (Greek Οὐρανία Urania; emphasis on Latin and German on the second syllable: Urania ) In Greek mythology, the muse of astronomy ( astronomy) - name derived from Uranus, the sky gods in shape. Your character, with which it is shown and described, are celestial globe and pointer, often held in my hands, showing partly also with the staff in his left hand on a globe on the ground.

From the god Apollo was according to some sources, the mother of Hymenäos and Linos.

In late antiquity ( Macrobius, Martianus Capella ) the Pythagorean idea of ​​the harmony of the spheres was designed so that the Muses were responsible for the various spheres of heaven; it was assigned Urania the fixed stars, and thus the highest note in the harmony of the spheres.

Urania is, among other things named after the asteroid Urania and the observatory Uraniborg on Hven. The company founded in 1888 in Berlin Urania had a significant effect example. Many astronomical observatories and scientifically oriented bourgeois national education associations took on this name, the relevant public observatories in Vienna, Zurich, Jena and in Antwerp, and the Astronomische Gesellschaft Urania Wiesbaden.