cosmographer
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Pietro Cardinal Mam, 73, cosmographer, critic of Fascism, friend to the Royal House of Italy; at Pisa.
From Time Magazine Archive
With this expedition was sent Andres Urdaneta, a friar, whose reputation stood very high as a cosmographer: he had belonged to the ill-fated expedition of Loaisa.
From The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes by Craig, Austin
Don Quixote laughed at the interpretation Sancho put upon “computed,” and the name of the cosmographer Ptolemy.
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 by Sylvester, Charles Herbert
The compilation of the history was then entrusted to Captain Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, the cosmographer of Peru.
From History of the Incas by Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert), Sir
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
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