stargazer

Noun
  1. Someone indifferent to the busy world (synset 110013657)
    "in the Odyssey Homer tells of lotus-eaters who live in dreamy indolence"
    is a type of: daydreamer, woolgatherer - someone who indulges in idle or absentminded daydreaming
    same as: lotus-eater
  2. A physicist who studies astronomy (synset 109837748)
    referred to in: astronomy, uranology - the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole
    is a type of: physicist - a scientist trained in physics
    subtypes:
    • astrophysicist - an astronomer who studies the physical properties of celestial bodies
    • cosmologist - an astronomer who studies the evolution and space-time relations of the universe
    specific instances:
    • al-hasan ibn al-haytham, al-haytham, alhacen, alhazen, ibn al-haytham - an Egyptian polymath (born in Iraq) whose research in geometry and optics was influential into the 17th century; established experiments as the norm of proof in physics (died in 1040)
    • anaximander - a presocratic Greek philosopher and student of Thales who believed the universal substance to be infinity rather than something resembling ordinary objects (611-547 BC)
    • aristarchus of samos - an ancient Greek astronomer who was one of the first to propose a heliocentric theory of the universe (circa 270 BC)
    • bessel, friedrich wilhelm bessel - German mathematician and astronomer who made accurate measurements of stellar distances and who predicted the existence on an 8th planet (1784-1846)
    • bowditch, nathaniel bowditch - United States mathematician and astronomer noted for his works on navigation (1773-1838)
    • brahe, tycho brahe - Danish astronomer whose observations of the planets provided the basis for Kepler's laws of planetary motion (1546-1601)
    • anders celsius, celsius - Swedish astronomer who devised the centigrade thermometer (1701-1744)
    • copernicus, mikolaj kopernik, nicolaus copernicus - Polish astronomer who produced a workable model of the solar system with the sun in the center (1473-1543)
    • eddington, sir arthur stanley eddington - English astronomer remembered for his popular elucidation of relativity theory (1882-1944)
    • eratosthenes - Greek mathematician and astronomer who estimated the circumference of the earth and the distances to the Moon and sun (276-194 BC)
    • galileo, galileo galilei - Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars; demonstrated that different weights descend at the same rate; perfected the refracting telescope that enabled him to make many discoveries (1564-1642)
    • george ellery hale, hale - United States astronomer who discovered that sunspots are associated with strong magnetic fields (1868-1938)
    • asaph hall, hall - United States astronomer who discovered Phobos and Deimos (the two satellites of Mars) (1829-1907)
    • edmond halley, edmund halley, halley - English astronomer who used Newton's laws of motion to predict the period of a comet (1656-1742)
    • herschel, sir frederick william herschel, sir william herschel, william herschel - English astronomer (born in Germany) who discovered infrared light and who catalogued the stars and discovered the planet Uranus (1738-1822)
    • herschel, john herschel, sir john frederick william herschel, sir john herschel - English astronomer (son of William Herschel) who extended the catalogue of stars to the southern hemisphere and did pioneering work in photography (1792-1871)
    • hipparchus - Greek astronomer and mathematician who discovered the precession of the equinoxes and made the first known star chart and is said to have invented trigonometry (second century BC)
    • huggins, sir william huggins - English astronomer who pioneered spectroscopic analysis in astronomy and who discovered the red shift (1824-1910)
    • hypatia - Greek philosopher and astronomer; she invented the astrolabe (370-415)
    • johan kepler, johannes kepler, kepler - German astronomer who first stated laws of planetary motion (1571-1630)
    • gerard kuiper, gerard peter kuiper, kuiper - United States astronomer (born in the Netherlands) who studied the solar system and suggested in 1951 that there is a belt of comet-like debris at the edge of the solar system (1905-1973)
    • langley, samuel pierpoint langley - United States astronomer and aviation pioneer who invented the bolometer and contributed to the design of early aircraft (1834-1906)
    • laplace, marquis de laplace, pierre simon de laplace - French mathematician and astronomer who formulated the nebular hypothesis concerning the origins of the solar system and who developed the theory of probability (1749-1827)
    • lovell, sir alfred charles bernard lovell, sir bernard lovell - English astronomer who pioneered radio astronomy (born in 1913)
    • lowell, percival lowell - United States astronomer whose studies of Mars led him to conclude that Mars was inhabited (1855-1916)
    • maria mitchell, mitchell - United States astronomer who studied sunspots and nebulae (1818-1889)
    • johann muller, muller, regiomontanus - German mathematician and astronomer (1436-1476)
    • newcomb, simon newcomb - United States astronomer (1835-1909)
    • omar khayyam - Persian poet and mathematician and astronomer whose poetry was popularized by Edward Fitzgerald's translation (1050-1123)
    • jan hendrix oort, oort - Dutch astronomer who proved that the galaxy is rotating and proposed the existence of the Oort cloud (1900-1992)
    • benjamin peirce, peirce - United States mathematician and astronomer remembered for his studies of Uranus and Saturn and Neptune (1809-1880)
    • claudius ptolemaeus, ptolemy - Alexandrian astronomer (of the 2nd century) who proposed a geocentric system of astronomy that was undisputed until the late Renaissance
    • david rittenhouse, rittenhouse - United States astronomer said to have built the first telescope made in America; also the first director of the United States Mint (1732-1796)
    • henry norris russell, henry russell, russell - United States astronomer who developed a theory of stellar evolution (1877-1957)
    • giovanni virginio schiaparelli, schiaparelli - Italian astronomer who first noted lines (which he called canals) on the surface of Mars (1835-1910)
    • harlow shapley, shapley - United States astronomer (1885-1972)
    • sitter, willem de sitter - Dutch astronomer who calculated the size of the universe and suggested that it is expanding (1872-1934)
    • thales, thales of miletus - a presocratic Greek philosopher and astronomer (who predicted an eclipse in 585 BC) who was said by Aristotle to be the founder of physical science; he held that all things originated in water (624-546 BC)
    • clyde tombaugh, clyde william tombaugh, tombaugh - United States astronomer who discovered the planet Pluto (1906-1997)
    same as: astronomer, uranologist
  3. Heavy-bodied marine bottom-lurkers with eyes on flattened top of the head (synset 102614528)
    is a type of: percoid, percoid fish, percoidean - any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes
    belongs to: family uranoscopidae, uranoscopidae - stargazers

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