Urania
Urania ( ancient Greek Οὐρανία Uranía; emphasis in Latin and German on the second syllable: Ur a nia) is the muse of astronomy ( astronomy ) in Greek mythology - derived by name from Uranos , the heaven in the form of a god. Her symbols, with which she is represented and described, are celestial globe and pointer , often held in hands, sometimes with the stick in the left hand pointing to a globe on the ground.
According to some sources, she became the mother of Hymenaeus and Linos from the god Apollo .
In late antiquity ( Macrobius , Martianus Capella ) the Pythagorean concept of the harmony of the spheres was designed so that the muses were responsible for the individual celestial spheres; Urania was assigned the fixed star sky and thus the highest note in the spherical harmony.
Urania is the namesake of the asteroid Urania and the Uraniborg observatory on the island of Hven. The Berlin company Urania , founded in 1888, had an important exemplary effect. Many astronomical observatories and scientifically oriented civil popular education associations took over this name, such as the relevant public observatories in Vienna , Zurich , Jena and Antwerp as well as the Astronomical Society Urania Wiesbaden . Such a Urania was also set up in Frederiksberg near Copenhagen in Dronning Olgas vej.
