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cosmography

[ koz-mog-ruh-fee ]

noun

plural cosmographies.
  1. a science that describes and maps the main features of the heavens and the earth, including astronomy, geography, and geology.
  2. a description or representation of the main features of the universe.


cosmography

/ ˌkɒzməˈɡræfɪk; kɒzˈmɒɡrəfɪ /

noun

  1. a representation of the world or the universe
  2. the science dealing with the whole order of nature
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

cosmography

/ ŏ-ŏə-ŧ /

  1. The study of the visible universe that includes the measurement and cataloging of its objects and structures.
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Derived Forms

  • cosmographic, adjective
  • ˌDzˈ󾱳, adverb
  • DzˈDz, noun
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Other yvlog Forms

  • Dz·Dz۲· Dz·Dz۲·󾱲 noun
  • Dz··· [koz-m, uh, -, graf, -ik], Dzm·i· adjective
  • Dzm·i··ly adverb
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of cosmography1

1350–1400; Middle English < Greek DzDzí description of the world. See cosmo-, -graphy
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Example Sentences

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This includes highlighting the knowledge of the past — be it stories, tools or cosmography.

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This view, that the agglomerate of earth and water was not a perfect sphere, was universally accepted in the later Middle Ages, and the new cosmography required its refutation.

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His map, so Brotton convincingly demonstrates, "was part of a cosmography that aimed to transcend the theological persecution and division of sixteenth-century Europe."

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But however poor, he found means to leave his native city, Genoa, and study astronomy, geometry, and cosmography, at the University of Pavia.

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A strange sort of cosmography had grown out of this ill-assorted reading.

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