cosmography

American  

[koz-mog-ruh-fee] / kɒzˈmɒg rə fi /

noun

plural

cosmographies

1. a science that describes and maps the main features of the heavens and the earth, including astronomy, geography, and geology.

2. a description or representation of the main features of the universe.

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cosmography British  

/ ˌkɒzməˈɡræfɪk, kɒzˈmɒɡrəfɪ /

noun

1. a representation of the world or the universe

2. the science dealing with the whole order of nature

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cosmography Scientific  

/ kŏz-mŏg′rə-fē /

1. The study of the visible universe that includes the measurement and cataloging of its objects and structures.

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Other Word Forms

• cosmographer noun
• cosmographic adjective
• cosmographical adjective
• cosmographically adverb
• cosmographist noun

Etymology

Origin of cosmography

1350–1400; Middle English < Greek kosmographía description of the world. See cosmo-, -graphy

Example Sentences

"To measure the Hubble constant using time-delay cosmography, you need a really massive galaxy that can act as a lens," said Wong.

From Science Daily

This includes highlighting the knowledge of the past — be it stories, tools or cosmography.

From Los Angeles Times

This view, that the agglomerate of earth and water was not a perfect sphere, was universally accepted in the later Middle Ages, and the new cosmography required its refutation.

From Literature

His map, so Brotton convincingly demonstrates, "was part of a cosmography that aimed to transcend the theological persecution and division of sixteenth-century Europe."

From The Guardian

But however poor, he found means to leave his native city, Genoa, and study astronomy, geometry, and cosmography, at the University of Pavia.

From Project Gutenberg