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cosmography
[koz-mog-ruh-fee]
noun
plural
cosmographiesa science that describes and maps the main features of the heavens and the earth, including astronomy, geography, and geology.
a description or representation of the main features of the universe.
cosmography
/ ˌkɒzməˈɡræfɪk, kɒzˈmɒɡrəfɪ /
noun
a representation of the world or the universe
the science dealing with the whole order of nature
cosmography
The study of the visible universe that includes the measurement and cataloging of its objects and structures.
Other 51Թ Forms
- cosmographer noun
- cosmographist noun
- cosmographic adjective
- cosmographical adjective
- cosmographically adverb
- ˌDzˈ adverb
- DzˈDz noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of cosmography1
Example Sentences
This includes highlighting the knowledge of the past — be it stories, tools or cosmography.
This view, that the agglomerate of earth and water was not a perfect sphere, was universally accepted in the later Middle Ages, and the new cosmography required its refutation.
His map, so Brotton convincingly demonstrates, "was part of a cosmography that aimed to transcend the theological persecution and division of sixteenth-century Europe."
But however poor, he found means to leave his native city, Genoa, and study astronomy, geometry, and cosmography, at the University of Pavia.
A strange sort of cosmography had grown out of this ill-assorted reading.
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