cosmographers

Arab cosmographers love to place their speciosa miracula in such places.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

But now let vs examine a few more such fables of the common people, which haue so vnhappily misledd our historiographers & cosmographers.

A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

Probably this was genuine geography, although he could not tell the name of the inner sea, the Achelunda of old cosmographers.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

America; our merchants in the time of King Edward the Sixth discovered the Moscovian passage farther north than Thule, and showed Greenland not to be continent with Lapland and Norway: the like our north-western travellers have done, declaring by their navigation that way the ignorance of all cosmographers that either do join Greenland with America, or continue the West Indies with that frosty region under the North Pole.

The North-West Passage 2003

I may therefore boldly say (though later intelligences thereof had we none at all) that Asia and the West Indies be not tied together by any isthmus or strait of land, contrary to the opinion of some new cosmographers, by whom doubtfully this matter hath been brought in controversy.

The North-West Passage 2003

Portuguese had then knowledge of; and that the said cosmographers knew no cause to the contrary, but that it might continue farther.

The North-West Passage 2003

Thus have I briefly showed you some part of the grounds of my opinion, trusting that you will no longer judge me fantastic in this matter, seeing I have conceived no hope of this voyage, but am persuaded thereunto by the best cosmographers of our age, the same being confirmed both by reason and certain experiences.

The North-West Passage 2003

But now let vs examine a few more such fables of the common people, which haue so vnhappily misledd our historiographers & cosmographers.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

In like manner, Johann Baros testifieth that the cosmographers of China (where he himself had been) affirm that the sea coast trendeth from thence north-east to fifty degrees of septentrional latitude, being the farthest part that way, which the

The North-West Passage 2003

It was then that the first cosmographers suggested there was only one large body of water and one large continent on the surface of the Earth.

The Pawprints of History STANLEY COREN 2002