cosmographer
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cosmographers
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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
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
He visited Portugal about 1480, invented a new kind of astrolabe, and sailed with it in 1484 as cosmographer in Diego Cam's voyage to the Congo.
From The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest by John Fiske
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 Austin Craig
From 1578 onwards he printed for Ortelius, the great cosmographer.
From Fine Books by Alfred W. (Alfred William) Pollard
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
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 Cambridge cosmographers do not favor the theory of the explosive universe.
From Time Magazine Archive
Misled by his belief in cosmographers, he blotted out the Pacific, and estimated the extent of water to be traversed at one-third of the reality.
From Lectures on Modern history by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton
To assist his judgment, he again went over the cosmographers which he had formerly studied, and considered maturely the astronomical reasons which corroborated this new opinion.
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