Astronomy

Astronomy the Ancients used to paint Astronomy like a Goddess with a silver Crescent on her Forehead, clothed in an azure Mantle, and a Watchet-scarf, spangled with golden Stars. She has been like wise painted in the same Manner as Astrology, (see above) only with a Table of Astronomical Figures in her left Hand, instead of a coelestial Globe. And sometimes as a Lady in a starry Habit; her Eyes looking up to heaven, in her right Hand holding an Astrolabe, and in her left a Table of Astronomical Figures. Her Garment denotes the Night to be the most proper to see the Stars in; her Eyes and Thoughts always elevated and intent upon coelestial Bodies; the Astrolabe measures the Distance of them. See Plat. II. Fig. 8.

Definition taken from The Universal Etymological Dictionary, edited by Nathan Bailey (1736)

Astrology * Avariˊce