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cosmographer

NOUN
  1. a scientist knowledgeable about cosmography

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  • Cosmographer, to finde himselfe Cosmopolites, a citizen and member of the whole and onely one mysticall citie vniuersall, and so consequently to meditate of the Cosmopoliticall gouernment thereof, vnder the King almightie, passing on very swiftly toward the most dreadfull and most comfortable terme prefixed. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01
  • It was a German cosmographer who suggested that the New World be designated ‘America.’
  • Another is a cosmographer, a job that gets no respect. Review: The Path of Revenge by Russell Kirkpatrick
  • The subject also attracted numerous cosmographers, geographers, encyclopedists and writers of belle letters.
  • 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 The North-West Passage
  • The book was largely based upon a translation of a work by Noel Duret, the French royal cosmographer.
  • He visited Portugal about 1480, invented a new kind of astrolabe, and sailed with it in 1484 as cosmographer in Diego Cam's voyage to the Congo. The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest
  • Dicuil, a cosmographer who wrote a description of the world c. 825 in the court of Charles the Bald, probably came from Iona, and he describes other Iona monks ranging as far north as the Faroes and as far south as Egypt.
  • 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. How Taiwan Became Chinese
  • Among those whom Columbus may have met there, was the great German cosmographer from Nuremburg, Martin Christopher Columbus
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