The cosmographical map of Gervais, dedicated to the Emperor Otho IV.
In fact, cosmographical science in the general opinion retrograded instead of advancing.
The Arabians adopted not only the ideas of the ancients, but also the fundamental notions of the cosmographical system of the Greeks.
The geographical and cosmographical ideas that were then prevalent may also be judged of by what S.
The shield of Achilles, forged by Vulcan and described in the eighteenth book of the Iliad, gives us an authentic representation of the primitive cosmographical ideas of the age.
The cosmographical part of his poem is borrowed from the system of Pythagoras and the Venerable Bede.
We may read in several cosmographical manuscripts of that epoch, that the earth has the form of a cone or a top, its surface rising from south to north.
The gods who are grouped together as the Aditya are the most ancient in the Hindoo mythology.
The cosmographical description forms the last three pages of the letter.
Among them was the cosmographical narration of Verrazzano mentioned by Tiraboschi, and which Mr. Bancroft expresses a desire to see copied for the Historical Society of New York.
It remains for me to lay before your Majesty a Cosmographical exposition of our voyage.
In these two chapters we see something of the vast erudition of Azurara, and at the same time something of the historical and cosmographical knowledge of our first discoverers.
And the cosmographical pedants, accustomed to beaten tracks, resented the insult by which this adventurer was attempting to overthrow the belief of centuries.
The work was thus made to form a general cosmographical treatise, with particular reference to the New World; and included an account of the religion and government of the Indians of Peru and Mexico.
In pursuance of these studies Waldseemüller had prepared a littlecosmographical treatise, and this it was now determined to print at the College Press at St.-Dié.
The references in Glareanus, Apian, Phrysius, and Münster show familiarity with his fame by the leading cosmographicalwriters of the time.
This well-known cosmographical student was one of the collaborators of the series of the printed Ptolemies, beginning with that of 1525.
In 1524 Apianus published the first edition of his cosmographical studies,—a book that for near a century, under various revisions, maintained a high reputation.
This was entertained by the leading cosmographical thinkers of that age,—who were far however from being in accord in respect to the size of the globe.
This singular volume, which is marked with all the peculiarities which distinguish his Cosmographical Mystery, is divided into five books.
All arrive at the same dangerous gates and passes, the same seductive lakes and gardens; for the magical machinery of the romance was more important to the poet's scheme than cosmographical conditions.
It is a manuscript map made at the end of the year 1500, by the eminent Biscayan pilot, who, if not the equal of Columbus in nautical and cosmographical knowledge, was easily the second to him.
Coronelli two large globes, the idea of which he then summarized herewith for the Cosmographical Academy of the Argonauts.
Terrestrial globe issued under the auspices of the Cosmographical Society of Upsala, edited by Andrea Akerman, now corrected.
The merit which Columbus arrogated to himself was that he was superior to the cosmographical knowledge of his time.
There was, as they thought, a much larger cosmographical problem lying to the south,--a route to India by a supposable African cape.
It is certain, however, that under the impulse of the young art of printing men's minds had at this time become more alive than they had been for centuries to the search for cosmographical views.
After 1513, and so on to the middle of the century, it was to the north of the Alps that the cosmographical students turned for the latest light upon all oceanic movements.
Indeed, it might happily elucidate a stage in the development of the Admiral's cosmographical views of which we know nothing.
Regiomontanus, Behaim, and Toscanelli had not communed in vain with cosmographical problems.
Pierre d'Ailly's position in regard to cosmographical knowledge was hardly a dominant one.
The Duke had emphasized the cosmographical studies of the age by this appointment of an energetic young student of geography, who seems to have had a deft hand at map-making.
In his Journal for this day, and amid all his anxieties, he found time to note down one of his curious visionary cosmographical reflections.
Reflections such as these, which abound in his writings, ought in themselves to be a sufficient condemnation of those who have endeavoured to prove that Columbus was a man of profound cosmographical learning and of a scientific mind.
The passage is remarkable, independently of the cosmographical knowledge it implies, for its allusion to phenomena in physical science, not established till more than a century later.
I am informed that Henry Bunau died some time ago, but I never heard it said that his books and the cosmographical globe which he bought in your workshop remained with the Princes of Saxony, as you believe.
Caspar Vopel professor of arts made this globe in Cologne in the year 1543," while on the remaining circles are engraved numerous cosmographical signs and names.
With a cosmographical globe: under a fine of five hundred Rhenish florins and forfeiting all copies.
It is a point to be especially noted that the dominant cosmographical idea of the map makers of the first quarter of the century represented the New World regions as independent of Asia.
In it we have one of the earliest technical yet practical explanations of the parts and uses of the globe, and a somewhat detailed statement how such instruments may be serviceably employed in cosmographical studies.
We have here omitted two sections of very uninteresting cosmographical observations on the antipodes, the torrid zone, the climate of the Western hemisphere, and the peopling of America.
In 1563 most of the letters from the 'Cosmographical Glass' are found again in the very rare edition of the music to Sternhold and Hopkins' metrical version of the Psalms, also printed by Day.
This contained a Cosmographical Appendix not in the copy printed by Ramusio.
As the Carli copy contains a Cosmographical Appendix not in the Ramusio text, Mr. Murphy assumes that Ramusio took his version from the Carli manuscript, revising it, and changing its language to suit his editorial taste.
Asher considers the Cosmographical Appendix a document of great importance.
And Verrazano himself says, in the cosmographical appendix to his letter, that the object of his expedition was to reach Cathay by a westward voyage, and that he expected to be able to penetrate any intervening land.
The large capitals, in Cuningham's Cosmographical Glasse, were doubtless suggested by Italian letters in the same taste.
The cut on page 425 and the three following are specimens of some of the large ornamental letters which occur in the Cosmographical Glasse.
A mark not unlike that in the letter A, from Cuningham's Cosmographical Glass, occurs on several of the smaller cuts.
Another illustrated book, 'The Cosmographical Glasse, conteinyng the pleasant Principles of Cosmographie, Geographie, Hydrographie or Navigation.
He also announces his intention of collecting all the wonderful things he had seen into a cosmographical book, that his record may live with future generations, intending to complete it, with the aid of friends, at home.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cosmographical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
