The famous Islamic cosmographer and Persian physician who lived in the thirteenth century, Zakariya ibn Muhammad ibn Mahmud Abu Yahya al-Qazwini, states that jinns “are aerial animals, with transparent bodies which can assume various forms.” ❋ Unknown (2009)
Making use of his European education, he functioned as a cosmographer as well as a missionary on this expedition. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Another is a cosmographer, a job that gets no respect. ❋ Jeff C (2009)
In 1597, the cosmographer Hernando de los Rios Coronel had written a memorial claiming that the best site for a Formosan colony was Jilong: With three-hundred men and a fortress placed there, all the powers of these parts would not be enough to dislodge them, for the entrance is narrow and easy to defend with artillery. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Moreover Alvarez Nunmius, a Spaniard, and learned cosmographer, and Jacques Cartier, who made two voyages into those parts, and sailed five hundred miles upon the north-east coasts of ❋ Unknown (2003)
Among those whom Columbus may have met there, was the great German cosmographer from Nuremburg, Martin ❋ Mildred Stapley Byne (N/A)
Don Quixote laughed at the interpretation Sancho put upon "computed," and the name of the cosmographer Ptolemy. ❋ Charles Herbert Sylvester (N/A)
There is a story told by the learned Andrew Thevet, chief cosmographer to Henry III., ❋ Various (N/A)
"Very far," said Don Quixote, "for of the three hundred and sixty degrees that this terraqueous globe contains, as computed by Ptolemy, the greatest cosmographer known, we shall have traveled one-half when we come to the line I spoke of." ❋ Charles Herbert Sylvester (N/A)
The compilation of the history was then entrusted to Captain Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, the cosmographer of Peru. ❋ Pedro Sarmiento De Gamboa (N/A)
The expedition also included Duarte Barbosa, Barbosa's nephew, the cosmographer Andrés de San Martín, and the Italian ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
As a means of protecting their converts, the Jesuits attempted to convert the savage Apaches, and the celebrated Father Kino (Kuehn), cosmographer and missioner, undertook the task. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
He was cosmographer to the king, interpreter for the Inquisition, publisher, and distinguished in his career as an hydraulic engineer. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Father Juan Sánchez, S.J., and the cosmographer, Enrique Martín (Martínez), were placed in charge of the work. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Cam in 1484, who erected a pillar in token of occupation, and with him was Martin Behaim the cosmographer. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Father Antonio de Marchena, a cosmographer of some note, lived here, and in him the navigator discovered a man bent on the project of discovering a new world. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Mathematician and cosmographer, b. at Perugia, Italy, 1537; d. at ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
After three years he again journeyed to the New World with three vessels on his own account, accompanied by the cosmographer Juan de La Cosa and Amerigo ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
