Urania (disambiguation)

Look up Urania, urania, or Uránia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

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

• Uranus (disambiguation)