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n. - A specialist in the science that deals with the constitution of the whole order of nature or the figure, disposition, and relation of all of its various parts

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  • Another is a cosmographer, a job that gets no respect.
  • Don Quixote laughed at the interpretation Sancho put upon "computed," and the name of the cosmographer Ptolemy.
  • The compilation of the history was then entrusted to Captain Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, the cosmographer of Peru.
  • Making use of his European education, he functioned as a cosmographer as well as a missionary on this expedition.
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