what was uranus named after?

Question

i want to know about the god

Answer 1

Although Uranus had been observed on many previous occasions, it was often mistaken for a star. The earliest recorded sighting was in 1690 when John Flamsteed cataloged Uranus as 34 Tauri. Flamsteed observed Uranus at least six more times. The record belongs to a French astronomer, Pierre Lemonnier, who observed Uranus at least twelve times between 1750 and 1769, including on four consecutive nights.

Sir William Herschel discovered the planet on March 13, 1781, but reported it on April 26, 1781, as a "comet."

On the 13th of March, 1781, between ten and eleven o'clock at night, while Herschel was examining the small stars near H Geminorum with a seven-foot telescope, bearing a magnifying power of two hundred and twenty-seven times, one of these stars seemed to have an unusual diameter; and it was, therefore, thought to be a comet. It was under this denomination that it was discussed at the Royal Society of London. But the researches of Herschel and of Laplace showed later that the orbit of the new body was nearly circular, and Uranus was consequently elevated to the rank of a planet.
Herschel originally named it Georgium Sidus (George's Star) in honour of King George III of Great Britain (c.f. American poet Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson's "Upon the Discovery of the Planet..." about the event). When it was pointed out that sidus means star and not planet, Herschel rebaptised it the Georgian Planet. This name was not accepted outside of Britain. Lalande proposed in 1784 to name it Herschel, at the same time that he created the planet's astrological symbol (, "a globe surmounted by your [Herschel's] initial"); his proposal was readily adopted by French astronomers. Prosperin, of Uppsala, proposed the names Astraea, Cybele, and Neptune (now borne by two asteroids and another planet). Lexell, of St. Petersburg, compromised with George III's Neptune and Great-Britain's Neptune. Bernoulli, from Berlin, suggested Hypercronius and Transaturnis. Lichtenberg, from Göttingen, chimed in with Austräa, a goddess mentioned by Ovid (but who is traditionally associated with Virgo). The name Minerva was also proposed.


William Herschel, discoverer of UranusFinally, Bode, as editor of the Berliner Astronomisches Jahrbuch, opted for Uranus, a name he had proposed as early as 1781, after the Latinized version of the Greek god of the sky, Ouranos; Maximilian Hell followed suit by using it in the first ephemeris, published in Vienna and computed by the Benedictine priest Placidus Fixlmillner. The earliest publication to include Uranus in its title was in 1823. The name was in use in Germany at least as far back as 1791, however. Examination of earliest issues of Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1827 shows that the name Uranus was already the most common name used even by British astronomers by then, and probably earlier. The name Georgium Sidus or "the Georgian" was still used infrequently (by the British alone) thereafter. The final holdout was HM Nautical Almanac Office, which did not switch to Uranus until 1850.

Jupiter (or Zeus) was the father of Mars (or Ares), and Saturn (or Cronos) was the father of Jupiter, thus, it was deemed most logical to continue the tradition and name the planet beyond Saturn after Uranus, since he, according to mythology, was the father of Saturn.

The stressed syllable in the name is properly the first, antepenultimate syllable, since in Latin the penultimate vowel a is short (ūrănŭs) and in an open syllable, and such syllables are never stressed in Latin. The historically correct pronunciation of the name by English-speakers is therefore. The historically incorrect pronunciation, with stress on the second syllable and a "long a" (ūrānŭs) has become very common.

In the Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese languages, the planet's name is literally translated as the sky king star

Answer 2

It was named after Uranus, the great primeval God of the Sky. Born of GAIA, the Earth, he covered the world in the form of a vast bronze dome and ruled over everything.

Answer 3

after Uranus

Answer 4

the Roman god of the heavens who was the father of Saturn and the grandfather of Jupiter. The equivalent of Uranus in Greek mythology is Ouranos.

Answer 5

Neptune The Blue Planet: Neptune being blue is named after the Roman god of sea himself Neptune, Some people believe that it was named after Posidon greek god of sea well it may or may not be but it is definetley is named after the roman god as other ones are see here what i think is the reason

MERCURY
Named for the winged Roman god of travel because it appears to move so swiftly.

VENUS
Roman name for the goddess of love. This planet was considered to be the brightest and most beautiful planet or star in the heavens.

EARTH
The name Earth comes from the Indo-European base 'er,' which produced the Germanic noun 'ertho,' and ultimately German 'erde,' Dutch 'aarde,' Danish and Swedish 'jord,' and English 'earth.' Related forms include Greek 'eraze,' meaning 'on the ground,' and Welsh 'erw,' meaning 'field.'

MARS
Named by the Romans for their god of war because of its red, bloodlike color. Other civilizations also named this planet from this attribute; for example, the Egyptians named it “Her Desher,” meaning “the red one.”

JUPITER
The largest and most massive of the planets was named Zeus by the Greeks and Jupiter by the Romans; he was the most important deity in both pantheons. Jupiter's satellites are named after mythological characters who have some relationship to Zeus.

SATURN
Saturn was the Roman name for the Greek Cronos, god of farming and the father of Zeus/Jupiter. Some of its satellites were named for Titans who, according to Greek mythology, were brothers and sisters of Saturn. The newest satellites were named for Gallic (Gaul, or ancient France), Norse, and Inuit (Eskimo) giants.

URANUS
Uranus was named for the Greek god of the sky. The astronmer William Lassell, who discovered two of Uranus' satellites in 1851, started the tradition of naming all of the planet's satellites for characters in the work of William Shakepseare and Alexander Pope.

NEPTUNE
Neptune, a blue planet, was named for the Roman god of the sea.

PLUTO(it is not a part of the solar system any more)
Pluto, the outermost planet in our solar system, was named after Roman god of the underworld, who was able to render himself invisible.

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Answer 6

Uranus is named after the god of sky / heavens. there's atradition of naming the planets in our system after deities. (Mars- God of war, Venus -god of love etc)

Answer 7

Hi. From the web: The earliest supreme god, a personification of the sky, who was the son and consort of Gaea and the father of the Cyclopes and Titans.

Answer 8

devon1754 does give a source about the discovery and naming of the planet, and also copies the whole text of that source here (I hate it when people do that), but does not actually talk about the Greek god. I won't paste the text here, but here is a source that is only about the Greek god of that name.

Answer 9

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