Urania (disambiguation)
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Urania or Ourania may refer to:
People
- Julia Urania, wife of Roman client King Ptolemy of Mauretania
Mythology
- Urania, a muse in Greek mythology
- Urania, an Oceanid
- Aphrodite Urania, a title for the Greek goddess Aphrodite, as opposed to Aphrodite Pandemos
- The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania, a work by Lady Mary Wroth
Science
- 30 Urania, an asteroid
- Urania, a German science magazine
- Urania - Postępy Astronomii, a Polish popular science magazine
- Urania (Berlin), the first science center in the world, founded in Berlin in 1888
- Urania (Antwerp), an observatory
- Urania (Vienna), an observatory
- Urania Sternwarte, an observatory in Zurich
- Urania (genus), a moth genus, subfamily Uraniinae
- Uranium dioxide, or urania, or uranic oxide
Places
- Urania, Louisiana, a town in the United States
- Urânia, a city in the state of São Paulo, Brazil
Literature
- Urania, a poem by Samuel Austin
- The Countess of Montgomery's Urania, a novel by Lady Mary Wroth
Other uses
- Ourania, an ancient Greek ball game, see Episkyros
- Urania Genève Sport, a Swiss football club
- Urania (magazine), a number of science fiction periodical magazines
- Uranian, a 19th-century term that referred to a person of a third sex
- Urania a sexual politics journal was circulated between 1916 and 1940. Editors included Eva Gore-Booth and Esther Roper
See also
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