cosmographer

American  

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

noun

• cosmographers
  plural

1. a specialist or expert in cosmography.

---

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• cosmographers
  plural

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

cosmographer cosmographers

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

From Time Magazine Archive

There is a story told by the learned Andrew Thevet, chief cosmographer to Henry III.,

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 by Various

A great Lutheran cosmographer and magician was found among the dead.

From Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II The Planting Of The First Colonies: 1562—1733 by Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey

The compilation of the history was then entrusted to Captain Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, the cosmographer of Peru.

From History of the Incas by Sir Clements R. (Clements Robert) Markham

In the projected expedition of the viceroy, Urdaneta's experience will be very valuable "because of your knowledge of the products of that region, and as you understand its navigation, and are a good cosmographer."

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 02 of 55 1521-1569 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 Beginning of the Nineteenth Century by Emma Helen Blair

Wilson structures “A Magical World” as essentially a series of lightly sketched biographies of the era’s most prominent theologians, philosophers, physicians, cosmographers and antiquaries.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 20, 2018

The Cambridge cosmographers do not favor the theory of the explosive universe.

From Time Magazine Archive

He is leading spokesman for "the Cambridge cosmographers," a group of innovators who apply modern mathematics and physics to the problems of the universe.

From Time Magazine Archive

The ancient cosmographers describe all these islands by one general name, the Javos ; but more recent knowledge has found that they have all separate names.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 02 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

The heaven and the earth together, therefore, to the ancient cosmographers, and still in poetical language, make up the universe.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various