A rare or archaic term referring to astronomy as a scientific discipline or field of study.
From 'astronomic' plus '-ics' forming a noun. This variant for 'astronomy' appeared in some 19th-century texts but never gained standard acceptance.
This word is a linguistic fossil—it's barely used today because we settled on 'astronomy,' but it shows how English was still experimenting with scientific terminology in the 1800s!
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