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Describes both heaven and earth (but without encroaching on geography or astronomy)
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cosmography
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Wikipedia
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Cosmography is the science that maps the general features of the cosmos or universe , describing both heaven and Earth (but without encroaching on geography or astronomy ). The 14th-century work 'Aja'ib al-makhluqat wa-ghara'ib al-mawjudat by Arab physician ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The creation of maps of the universe. 2 The study of the size and geometry of the universe and changes in those with cosmic time.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cosmography \Cos*mog"ra*phy\ (k?z-m?g"r?-f?), n.; pl. Cosmographies (-f?z). [Gr. kosmografi`a; ko`smos the world + gra`fein to write: cf. F. cosmographie.] A description of the world or of the universe; or the science which teaches the constitution of the ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the science that maps the general features of the universe; describes both heaven and earth (but without encroaching on geography or astronomy) a representation of the earth or the heavens; "the cosmography of Ptolemy"
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"description of the universe," mid-15c., from cosmo- + -graphy . Related: Cosmographic .
Usage examples of cosmography.
I can still see the little chapel which you fitted up one day in your desk, the pretty wax tapers we made for it, which we lighted one day during the cosmography class.
The excellent doctor, who was in no way a philosopher, made me study the logic of the Peripatetics, and the cosmography of the ancient system of Ptolemy, at which I would laugh, teasing the poor doctor with theorems to which he could find no answer.
One booke of Cosmography, comprising many things of Aristotles Meteors.
From the time the law of Copernicus was discovered and proved, the mere recognition of the fact that it was not the sun but the earth that moves sufficed to destroy the whole cosmography of the ancients.
Einstein cosmography ruled firmly that nothing could be done about gravity but endure it, time without end.
He learned sword-fighting and riding, swimming and diving, how to shoot with the bow and play on the recorder and the theorbo, how to hunt the stag and cut him up when he was dead, besides Cosmography, Rhetoric, Heraldry, Versification, and of course History, with a little Law, Physic, Alchemy, and Astronomy.
It was a shape which inspired all sorts of philosophical and scientific speculations (Kepler's cosmography, the carbon atom, Buckminster Fuller's geodesic structures .
Orthography, etymology, syntax, and prosody, biography, astronomy, geography, and general cosmography, the sciences of compound proportion, algebra, land-surveying and levelling, vocal music, and drawing from models, were all at the ends of his ten chilled fingers.