cosmographical
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In the past, most cosmographical theories were concocted by mathematicians sitting in quiet rooms and struggling with streams of abstractions.
From Time Magazine Archive
This much may suffice for an account of the incorrect yet curious specimen of cosmographical knowledge which had been acquired by the learned in Europe about 300 years ago.
One of the rooms in the Palazzo Vecchio, so called because the famous cosmographical timepiece, made about 1484 for Lorenzo de’ Medici by Lorenzo della Volpaia, stood there.
From Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Symonds, John Addington
Such was the state of knowledge acquired respecting the earth's satellite which the Gun Club undertook to perfect under all its aspects, cosmographical, geographical, geological, political, and moral.
From The Moon-Voyage by Verne, Jules
The cosmographical part of his poem is borrowed from the system of Pythagoras and the Venerable Bede.
From Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens by Blake, John F.
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