The earliest appearance of it in England is in a book printed by John Day in 1559, William Cunningham's The cosmographical glasse. ❋ DC (2008)
Polus 'lies, correct those errors in navigation, reform cosmographical charts, and rectify longitudes, if it were possible; not by the compass, as some dream, with Mark Ridley in his treatise of magnetical bodies, cap. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Of the several generally recognized theories of the interpretation of myth: the historical, or euhemeristic; the physical, or cosmographical; the allegorical; and the allegorical-theological, the writers of the seven - teenth century seem to have been chiefly occupied with the latter two, and it is interesting that each of these theories finds respective support from two of the most eminent literary figures who lived at the turn of the century. ❋ FREDERICK HARD (1968)
Cosmographical Dissertations; containing the cosmographical mystery respecting the admirable proportion of the celestial orbits, and the genuine and real causes of the number, magnitude, and periods of the planets, demonstrated by the five regular geometrical solids. ' ❋ Thomas Nathaniel Orchard (N/A)
The labors of Kepler were mathematical, optical, cosmographical, and astronomical, -- but chiefly astronomical. ❋ Various (N/A)
Small atlases were largely circulated in cosmographical codices. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
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. ❋ Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500-1571 (1910)
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. ❋ Unknown (1909)
However much they are at variance with the cosmographical manuscripts of the past, these plain statements may be relied upon as a record of the things Olaf Jansen claims to have seen with his own eyes. ❋ Unknown (1908)
But the holy Pontiff, bull neck, low forehead, impudent prominent nose, and sensual lips notwithstanding, is exhausted by his cosmographical efforts, and he lets it rest at that. ❋ Filson Young (1907)
At that very moment Columbus was groping round the mainland of South America, thinking it to be the coast of Cathay, and the Garden of Eden, and God knows what other cosmographical -- theological abstractions; and Portugal, busy with her arrangements for making money, could afford for the moment to look on undismayed at the development of the mine of promises discovered by the ❋ Filson Young (1907)
In his Journal for this day, and amid all his anxieties, he found time to note down one of his curious visionary cosmographical reflections. ❋ Filson Young (1907)
Reflections such as these, which abound in his writings, ought in themselves to be a sufficient condemnation of those who have endeavoured to prove that Columbus was a man of profound cosmographical learning and of a scientific mind. ❋ Filson Young (1907)
It is founded on the cosmographical treatises of the time, which generally commence by stating that Augustus Cæsar sent out three philosophers, Nichodoxus, Theodotus, and Polictitus, to measure and survey the world, and that all geographical knowledge was the result. ❋ Unknown (1906)
