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Definition of Cosmography

1. Noun. The science that maps the general features of the universe; describes both heaven and earth (but without encroaching on geography or astronomy).

2. Noun. A representation of the earth or the heavens. "The cosmography of Ptolemy"

Definition of Cosmography

1. n. A description of the world or of the universe; or the science which teaches the constitution of the whole system of worlds, or the figure, disposition, and relation of all its parts.

Definition of Cosmography

1. Noun. The creation of maps of the universe. ¹

2. Noun. The study of the size and geometry of the universe and changes in those with cosmic time. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cosmography

1. [n -PHIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cosmography

cosmogonically cosmogonies cosmogonist cosmogonists cosmogony cosmogram cosmograms cosmographer cosmographers cosmographic

cosmographical cosmographically cosmographies cosmographist cosmographists cosmography cosmoi cosmolabe cosmolabes cosmolatry

cosmoline cosmolined cosmolines cosmolining cosmologic cosmological cosmological argument cosmological arguments cosmological city cosmological constant

Literary usage of Cosmography

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

1. Cosmographiae Introductio of Martin Waldseemuller in Facsimile: Followed by by Martin Waldseemüller (1908)
"... chief teachings of cosmography essentially according to traditional views. In the introduction he discusses the principal theorems of geometry as far as ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"But from the outset the Tuscans did not cosmography, "Delia Composizione del Mondo", restrict themselves to erotic poetry, but sang of re- Most of the prose ..."

3. Some Longer Elizabethan Poems by Arthur Henry Bullen (1903)
"Carriers' Cosmography: or A Brief Relation of The Inns, Ordinaries, Hostelries, and other lodgings in and near London; where the Carriers, Waggons, ..."

4. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes, Henry George Bohn (1865)
"Lond. 1671, 12mo.— Fourth impression. Lond, 1680, 12mo.— Lond. 1709, 12mo. I Cosmography in four Books. By Peter Heylyn, DD, improved, &c. by Edmund ..."

5. A History of Ancient Geography Among the Greeks and Romans from the Earliest by Edward Herbert Bunbury (1879)
"... to what he actually saw and [escribed: but it is idle to examine closely the language of such 1 writer as Avienus. NOTE B, p. 693. THE Cosmography OF . ..."

6. Social England Illustrated: A Collection of XVIIth Century Tracts by Andrew Lang (1903)
"... Carriers' Cosmography: or A Brief Relation of The Inns, Ordinaries, Hostelries, and other lodgings in and near London; where the Carriers, Waggons, ..."

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