Definition of Cosmographies

1. cosmography [n] - See also: cosmography

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cosmographies

cosmogonal
cosmogonic
cosmogonical
cosmogonically
cosmogonies
cosmogonist
cosmogonists
cosmogony
cosmogram
cosmograms
cosmographer
cosmographers
cosmographic
cosmographical
cosmographically
cosmographies (current term)
cosmographist
cosmographists
cosmography
cosmoi
cosmolabe
cosmolabes
cosmolatry
cosmoline
cosmolined
cosmolines
cosmolining
cosmologic
cosmological
cosmological argument

Literary usage of Cosmographies

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Extraordinary Voyage in French Literature Before 1700 by Geoffrey Atkinson (1920)
"Illustrated cosmographies. 2. Realism in some accounts of Voyages after. ... ILLUSTRATED cosmographies WIDESPREAD interest in geography in the Middle Ages ..."

2. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1897)
"Other maps from his hand appear on another page of the Ptolemy above referred to, and also in his own copy of the cosmographies ..."

3. The American Historical Review by American Historical Association (1905)
"Conjectures have been many as to the real character of the map which the cosmographies was designed to accompany. Waldseemüller referred to it asa large map ..."

4. The Cosmographiæ Introductio of Martin Waldseemüller in Facsimile: Followed by Martin Waldseemüller (1908)
"It is expressly stated in the cosmographies In- ... only one hitherto found,' which agrees with the statements published in-the cosmographies Intro- ductio. ..."

5. A General Bibliographical Dictionary by Friedrich Adolf Ebert, Arthur Browne (1837)
"... Mellae cosmographies liber. Without place or date (about 1474). 4°. 59 leaves with 22 lines and the signatures ah. ..."

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