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cosmography|kɒzˈmɒgrəfɪ|
[ad. Gr. κοσµογραϕί-α description of the world, f. κοσµογράϕος: see cosmographer. Cf. F. cosmographie.]
1. The science which describes and maps the general features of the universe (both the heavens and the earth), without encroaching on the special provinces of astronomy or geography.
But formerly often = geography in its present sense, or spec. as including hydrography.
1519Interl. Four Elem. in Hazl. Dodsley I. 27 Of towns to know the situation, How far they be asunder, And other points of cosmography. 1549Compl. Scot. vi. 46 Cosmaghraphie..is ane vniuersal discriptione of the varld, contenand in it the four elementis, the eird, the vattir, the ayr, and the fyir, the sone and mune, and al the sternis. 1569J. Sandford tr. Agrippa's Van. Artes 37 b, The measure of the worlde, and this is deuided into Cosmographie, and Geographie. 1570Dee Math. Pref. 33 The Matching of both [Astronomy and Geography], hath his peculier Arte, called Cosmographie. 1594Blundevil Exerc. iii. i. i. (ed. 7) 277 Cosmography is the description..of heaven and earth, and all that is contained therein. 1622–62Heylin Cosmogr. Introd. (1674) 24/2 As well of History as of Geography. Out of which two compounded and intermixt, ariseth that universal Comprehension of Natural and Civil story, which by a proper and distinct name may be termed Cosmography. 1658Phillips, Cosmography, a description of the World, with the Climates and Circles marked upon the Globe and in Maps. 1706― (ed. Kersey), Cosmography, a Description of the visible World; a Science which shews the Frame of the Universe, or whole World..The two Branches of this Science are Astronomy and Geography. 1764B. Martin Syst. Philol. II. 33 That Science which is properly called Geography, or rather Cosmography. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. I. iii. 68 Sir Humphrey Gilbert..engaged deeply in the science of cosmography.
2. A description or representation of the universe or of the earth in its general features.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 23 Pricianus Grammaticus, in his Cosmographye. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. (1858) I. 89 That buik, quhilk callit is for-yi Of Pholome the greit cosmographi. 1642Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. 32 Which without further travel I can do in the Cosmography of my self. 1662South Serm. (1697) I. 79 The Body [of Man]..being..a little Cosmography or Map of the Universe. 1838–9Hallam Hist. Lit. I. iii. i. §73. 193 Two translations [of]..the cosmography of Ptolemy. 1876Gladstone Homeric Synchr. 226, I am far from meaning that he had in his mind an harmonious world-plan or cosmography. |
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