cosmographer

American  

[kahz-mah-gruhf-er] / kɑzˈmɑ grəf ər /

noun

cosmographers plural

1. a specialist or expert in cosmography.

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Inflected Forms

noun

• cosmographers
  plural

Example Sentences

Pietro Cardinal Mam, 73, cosmographer, critic of Fascism, friend to the Royal House of Italy; at Pisa.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ortuña Ximenes, of Biscay, a great cosmographer, accompanied this expedition, as chief pilot.

From The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 2 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Díaz del Castillo, Bernal

In 1474 he is said to have corresponded with Paolo Toscanelli, the Florentine physician and cosmographer, and to have received from him valuable suggestions, both by map and letter, for such a Western enterprise.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various

Nowhere does your Highness need a cosmographer so much as in that land, for many things that arise and may arise.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 18 of 55 1617-1620 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander

About 1660, Sebastien de Ruesta, cosmographer of the Casa de Contractacion de Seville, shows Guayan� covering the British, French and Dutch Guayan�s.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various