Poring over the cosmography of Alonzo de Chaves, Soto and the officers of his expedition concluded that a river, crossed on the 26th of May, was the Espiritu Santo, or Mississippi.
It may be said with general truth that the world-maps current up to the end of the 13th century had more analogy to the mythical cosmography of the Hindus than to any thing properly geographical.
In the Hindu cosmography these genuine features are symmetrised as in a kaleidoscope; in the European cartography they are squeezed together in a manner that one can only compare to a pig in brawn.
Hamd-Allah is the author of the Cosmography known as the Nuzhat-al-Kulub or "Heart's Delight.
Thus Dante's bad cosmography and worse history do not detract from the spiritual penetration of his thought, though they detract from its direct applicability.
It is distinguished from cosmography by dealing with the earth alone, not with the universe, and from chorography and topography by dealing with the whole earth, not with a country or a place.
The popular meaning is better conveyed by the word physiography, a term which appears to have been introduced by Linnaeus, and was reinvented as a substitute for the cosmography of the middle ages by Professor Huxley.
The first falsehood is, that the admiral went to Lisbon to learn cosmography from a brother of his own who was settled in that place.
The cosmography of the "King's Mirror" is based on older mediæval writers, especially Isidore.
The final war with Granada had been going on since the end of 1481, and considering how it weighed upon the minds of Ferdinand and Isabella it is rather remarkable that cosmography got any hearing at all.
The history of cosmography is compounded of natural history, civil history, and mathematics.
The cosmography of Apianus, professor at Ingoldstadt, published in 1524, contains also a map of the four quarters of the world.
We find also in this collection, besides an introduction to cosmography by Sebastian Munster, a map of the world bearing the date 1531.
In rabbinical cosmography the abyss is a region of Gehenna situated below the ocean bed and divided into three or seven parts imposed one above the other.
Retiring to the cloister, he devoted the remnant of his life to the preparation of a work in defence of the cosmography of the Pentateuch from the errors of the Ptolemaic astronomy.
He was the author of several publications on cosmographyand navigation.
First Moses wrote a cosmography of divine history in five volumes, which is named Pentateuch.
Among Christian scholars from the beginning there had been a desire to bring the traditional ideas of pagancosmography into subordination to the Christian scheme.
I hope to be able to demonstrate this by one of the tables of the new cosmographywhich it is my intention to write, if God gives me life.
Among the latter is Vespucci,[3] nephew of Amerigo Vespucci of Florence who, at his death, bequeathed his knowledge of navigation and cosmography to his nephew.
BOOK VI The time has come, Most Holy Father, to philosophise a little, leaving cosmography to seek the causes of Nature's secrets.
There were professors of cosmography and astronomy in the university, familiar with the works of Alfraganus and Regiomontanus.
There was nothing known about cosmography or astronomy that Behaim did not know; and he had just come back from an expedition on which he had been despatched, with Rodrigo and Joseph, to take the altitude of the sun in Guinea.
He was not only learned in cosmography and astronomy, but he had a genius for mechanics and made beautiful instruments; he was a merchant also, and combined a little business with his scientific travels.
To him we owe the first serious exposition of the complete harmonic cosmography of Pythagoras.
It was with the object of refuting the opinions of those who gave a spherical form to the earth that Cosmas composed his work after the systems of the Church Fathers, and in opposition to the cosmography of the Gentiles.
The most remarkable of all the fantastical systems, however, the chef d'oeuvre of the cosmography of that age, was the famous system of the square earth, with solid walls for supporting the heavens.
The limits of the world in the Homeric cosmography were surrounded by obscurity.
In the Catalan map of the world, which was the standard example of cosmography in the early days of Columbus, most of these mythical islands are marked.
The various cosmography of that part hath already varied the names of contrived constellations; Nimrod is lost in Orion, and Osyris in the Dog-star.
The same also reappears in the cosmography of Sebastian Munster, published in Basle.
He probably derived his impression of the voyage to Labrador and the discovery of the straits by Alfonse, from a cursory reading of the cosmography of Alfonse, who describes these straits, but not as a discovery of his own.
We are indebted to the American Geographical Society of New York for the use of its photographs of the Verrazano map, and to Mr. Brevoort for a copy of the cosmography of Alfonse, from which the chart of Norumbega has been taken.
It is called in the manuscript cosmography and charts of Jean Alfonse, terre de la Franciscane.
I have, indeed, as your excellency observes, oftentimes disputed and argued with the venerable Toscanelli, and to him is due much of the little knowledge I have been able to acquire in cosmography and astronomy.
He engaged in the study of cosmography and the practice of navigation, and at one time visited Mecca, where the caravans brought in the spices from distant lands.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cosmography" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
