Editing Module:Uranus (section)

== In culture ==

* In modern [[astrology]], the planet Uranus (symbol [[File:Uranus monogram.svg|22px|alt=Uranus monogram]]) is the ruling planet of [[Aquarius (astrology)|Aquarius]]; prior to the discovery of Uranus, the ruling planet of Aquarius was Saturn. Because Uranus is [[cyan]] and Uranus is associated with electricity, the colour [[electric blue (color)|electric blue]], which is close to cyan, is associated with the sign Aquarius.<ref>{{cite book | last1=Parker | first1=Derek | author-link1=Derek Parker | last2=Parker | first2=Julia | author-link2=Julia Parker (astrologer) | title=Aquarius | series=Planetary Zodiac Library | date=1996 | publisher=DK Publishing | page=12 | isbn=9780789410870 }}</ref>
* The chemical element [[uranium]], discovered in 1789 by the German chemist [[Martin Heinrich Klaproth]], was named after the then-newly discovered Uranus.<ref>{{cite web | first=David E. | last=Hobart | date=23 July 2013 | title=Uranium | work=Periodic Table of the Elements | publisher=Los Alamos National Laboratory | url=https://periodic.lanl.gov/92.shtml | access-date=5 May 2021 | archive-date=12 May 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210512173625/https://periodic.lanl.gov/92.shtml | url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Lydia Sigourney]] included her poem {{ws|[[s:Poems Sigourney 1827/The Georgian Planet|The Georgian Planet]]|ps=no}} in her 1827 collection of poetry.
* "Uranus, the Magician" is a movement in [[Gustav Holst]]'s orchestral suite ''[[The Planets]]'', written between 1914 and 1916.
* [[Operation Uranus]] was the successful [[military operation]] in [[World War II]] by the [[Red Army]] to take back [[Stalingrad]] and marked the turning point in the land war against the [[Wehrmacht]].
* The lines "Then felt I like some watcher of the skies/When a new planet swims into his ken", from [[John Keats]]'s "[[On First Looking into Chapman's Homer]]", are a reference to Herschel's discovery of Uranus.<ref>{{cite web | first=Lilia | last=Melani | title=On First Looking into Chapman's Homer | url=https://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/homer.html | publisher=City University of New York | date=12 February 2009 | access-date=5 May 2021 | archive-date=12 April 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210412194155/http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/homer.html | url-status=live }}</ref>