Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A geographer.
- noun One who investigates the problems of cosmography; one versed in cosmography.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who describes the world or universe, including the heavens and the earth.
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- noun astrophysics a
scientist specializing in understanding anddescribing the nature of theuniverse . - noun obsolete Someone who describes the
world ; ageographer oranthropologist .
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- noun a scientist knowledgeable about cosmography
Etymologies
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Examples
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The famous Islamic cosmographer and Persian physician who lived in the thirteenth century, Zakariya ibn Muhammad ibn Mahmud Abu Yahya al-Qazwini, states that jinns “are aerial animals, with transparent bodies which can assume various forms.”
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Making use of his European education, he functioned as a cosmographer as well as a missionary on this expedition.
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Making use of his European education, he functioned as a cosmographer as well as a missionary on this expedition.
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Another is a cosmographer, a job that gets no respect.
Review: The Path of Revenge by Russell Kirkpatrick Jeff C 2009
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Another is a cosmographer, a job that gets no respect.
Archive 2009-01-01 Jeff C 2009
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In 1597, the cosmographer Hernando de los Rios Coronel had written a memorial claiming that the best site for a Formosan colony was Jilong: With three-hundred men and a fortress placed there, all the powers of these parts would not be enough to dislodge them, for the entrance is narrow and easy to defend with artillery.
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Moreover Alvarez Nunmius, a Spaniard, and learned cosmographer, and Jacques Cartier, who made two voyages into those parts, and sailed five hundred miles upon the north-east coasts of
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Among those whom Columbus may have met there, was the great German cosmographer from Nuremburg, Martin
Christopher Columbus Mildred Stapley Byne
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"Very far," said Don Quixote, "for of the three hundred and sixty degrees that this terraqueous globe contains, as computed by Ptolemy, the greatest cosmographer known, we shall have traveled one-half when we come to the line I spoke of."
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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Don Quixote laughed at the interpretation Sancho put upon "computed," and the name of the cosmographer Ptolemy.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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