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cosmography

NOUN
  1. a representation of the earth or the heavens
    the cosmography of Ptolemy
  2. the science that maps the general features of the universe; describes both heaven and earth (but without encroaching on geography or astronomy)

How To Use cosmography In A Sentence

  • the cosmography of Ptolemy
  • It was a shape which inspired all sorts of philosophical and scientific speculations (Kepler's cosmography, the carbon atom, Buckminster Fuller's geodesic structures ...), and the art department constructed models of various sizes which were set in African and lunar landscapes. Tin
  • It was a new installment in his elaborate cosmography in progress.
  • Allah always listens, promise clerics, after cosmography corrects human error that told worshippers to face Somalia Indonesian Muslims turn prayers back to Mecca after 1,000-mile mistake
  • It is master of astronomy, it makes cosmography, counsels and corrects all the human arts, moves men to different parts of this world, is the prince of mathematics; its sciences are most certain, it has measured the height and size of the stars, generated architecture, perspective and divine painting .... Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
  • Their works covered the range of cosmography, uranography, hydrography, chorogreaphy and topography.
  • Quantity considered in the movements of the celestial bodies is geometrical astronomy; from which arise cosmography or description of the universe, which is divided into uranography or description of the heavens, hydrography or description of waters, and geography; whence also arise chronology and gnomonics, or the art of constructing sundials.
  • It is found in the cosmography in connection with the ruttier before mentioned The Voyage of Verrazzano A Chapter in the Early History of Maritime Discovery in America
  • He was interested in works on cosmography and genealogy and, as a political man with a classical education, owned a substantial library of Greek, Latin, and Italian books.
  • For this reason, the principal tool of cosmography has become the redshift survey.
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