Example sentences for: astronomer

How can you use “astronomer” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • From the poet Sappho, who in the sixth century BC was the first to use the lyric to write subjectively and explore the range of female experience, to the Chinese polymath Pan Chao (Ban Zhao), who flourished around AD 100 as historian, poet, astronomer, mathematician and educationalist, the range is startling.

  • This ornate octagonal-shaped structure was a clock and meteorological station built by astronomer Andronikos in the first century b.c.

  • Contact 's central premise is intriguing: A radio astronomer, played by Jodie Foster, receives a blizzard of binary mathematical data from a civilization in distant space.

  • Aryabhatt, a Hindu astronomer and mathematician, pointed out before Copernicus did that the solar system is heliocentric, not geocentric.

  • A well-shaped chapter deals with the astronomer in Rasselas as an example of the man of learning whose actions are severely limited by a psychiatric problem.


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