Henrique, and that these maps were adopted and copied by the cosmographers of the whole of Europe (see Memoria sobre a prioridade dos descobrimentos dos Portuguezes, etc.
Touching the equinoctial line, some of the ancient cosmographers were in error when they affirmed that the heat was such as to render the country lying under it uninhabitable.
Ne can this opinion seeme altogether friuolous vnto any one that diligently peruseth our Cosmographers doings.
This geographer did not define the land's border on the ocean at the east, but it was not unusual with the cosmographers who followed him to carry the farthest limits of Asia to what is actually the meridian of the Sandwich Islands.
I think it must be part of that continent which cosmographers have named the Great Atlantis, but without giving further details as to its situation or character.
Cosmographers unanimously recognise that venerable antiquity received no such benefit from nature, because never before did man, starting from the known world, penetrate to those unknown regions.
Note 11: This was the general opinion of cosmographers and navigators at that period; contemporary maps and globes show the Asiatic continent in the place actually occupied by Florida and Mexico.
They are in contradiction with the ancient poets, philosophers, and cosmographers over the question whether that portion of the world on the equinoctial line is or is not an inaccessible desert.
It is not without cause thatcosmographers have left the boundaries of Ganges India undetermined.
But ancient Cosmographers placed the first meridian at the Canaries.
Whilst my Physitions by their love are growne Cosmographers .
Our Cosmographers affirme that the said river of Niger is derived out of Nilus, which they imagine for some certaine space to be swallowed up of the earth, and yet at last to burst forth into such a lake as is before mentioned.
Among the Latin cosmographers we may here cite one who flourished in the first century after Christ, Pomponius Mela, who wrote a treatise, called De Situ Orbis.
The latter he placed with other cosmographers in the centre of the earth.
He describes also the garden of Eden; and, like all the cosmographers of the middle ages, he placed it in the most easterly portion of the world in an inaccessible place, and surrounded by a wall of fire, which rose up to heaven.
Dati placed also the terrestrial paradise in Asia, like the cosmographers that preceded him, and made the Nile come from the east.
The details of the exploration appear more distinctly upon the charts which the royal cosmographers at Seville prepared, with the names given to the prominent points of the coast.
The contemporary Portuguese pilots and cosmographers give no record of Vespucius’ eminence as a nautical geometrician.
To assist his judgment, he again went over the cosmographers which he had formerly studied, and considered maturely the astronomical reasons which corroborated this new opinion.
The cosmographers do not write of this ancient Atlantic Island because there was no memory, when they wrote, of its very rich commercial prosperity in the second, and perhaps in the first age.
Lastly, That the Globe it self is by Cosmographers divided into East and West, accounting from the first Meridian, it doth not establish this conceit.
The ancient cosmographers describe all these islands by one general name, the Javos; but more recent knowledge has found that they have all separate names.
This important functionary summoned a junta of cosmographers (not a promising assemblage!
Here was a step gained; the cosmographers were to consider his scheme, and not merely to consider whether it was worth taking into consideration.
Ptolomy calls them Egyptian Arabs: Pomponius Mela and other cosmographers name them in general Arabs; but we ought to follow Ptolomy, as he was the prince of cosmographers.
Cosmographers in general call the inhabitants of both these regions Ethiopians.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cosmographers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
