History Temples and images are eternal in the Jain tradition, being involved in Jain cosmography. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
The cosmography of Ptolemy. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Group 18, Maps and apparatus for geography, cosmography, topography. From Wordnik.com. [Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission] Reference
He has a new science of matter, a new physical cosmography, and a new science of local motion. From Wordnik.com. [Galileo Galilei] Reference
The various cosmography of that part hath already varied the names of contrived constellations. From Wordnik.com. [Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial] Reference
For Galileo, this shift was also from a mathematical planetary model to a physically realizable cosmography. From Wordnik.com. [Galileo Galilei] Reference
"Mounted then upon a dragon's back, /That with his wings did part the subtle air,/He now is gone to prove cosmography.". From Wordnik.com. [Ten of the best dragons in literature] Reference
Father Tarra, a venerable old man, is dabbling in -- cosmography; and Brother Nanin, also a most worthy man, specialist in history. From Wordnik.com. [Hard to be a god]
Photography; Books and publications -- Bookbinding; Maps and apparatus for geography, cosmography, topography; Instruments of precision; Philosophical apparatus, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission] Reference
I can still see the little chapel which you fitted up one day in your desk, the pretty wax tapers we made for it, which we lighted one day during the cosmography class. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
One, in mathematics, for teaching theoretical and practical arithmetic, the main topic, and also astronomy, cosmography, Euclid's geometry, and theoretical and practical music. From Wordnik.com. [Physics in Denmark: The First Four Hundered Years] Reference
The human mind therefore can engage not only in a “cosmography” studying measurable phenomena but also in a “cosmology” discerning the visible inner logic of the cosmos. From Wordnik.com. [ID/Evolution] Reference
Such seemed my good Viking's theory of cosmography. From Wordnik.com. [Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2)] Reference
How's that geocentric cosmography working out for ya?. From Wordnik.com. [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference
This method has been followed by all the writers on cosmography. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 01 of 55 1493-1529 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
Palos, who was somewhat versed in cosmography, and for Martin Alonso. From Wordnik.com. [The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest] Reference
Isabella it is rather remarkable that cosmography got any hearing at all. From Wordnik.com. [The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest] Reference
The Professor of Astronomy was to teach astronomy, optics, navigation, and cosmography. From Wordnik.com. [Art in England Notes and Studies] Reference
The history of cosmography is compounded of natural history, civil history, and mathematics. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy] Reference
The various cosmography of that part hath already varied the names contrived constellations; Nimrod is lost in. From Wordnik.com. [The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I] Reference
Books of travel or cosmography, which the cure of the parish lent to him, posed on his table -- unexpected in this house. From Wordnik.com. [Ramuntcho] Reference
"But, your grace, M. de la Pérouse is with the king, discussing geography and cosmography; he will not get away too early.". From Wordnik.com. [The Queen's Necklace] Reference
There were professors of cosmography and astronomy in the university, familiar with the works of Alfraganus and Regiomontanus. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Volume 2] Reference
Hernandez, who often comes and has a talk with him; he knows all about astronomy and cosmography; the Prior will send for him. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Volume 2] Reference
Oh, about taking over the media … one of the "7 Mountains" in Palin's religious cosmography is the Press / Media / Entertainment. From Wordnik.com. [WordPress.com News] Reference
It is certain that cosmography formed the basis of his philosophy, and this may be ascribed to his early occupation with the sphere. From Wordnik.com. [Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction] Reference
He ransacked cosmography, astrology, alchemy, optics, the canon law, and the divinity of the schoolmen for ink-horn terms and similes. From Wordnik.com. [Brief History of English and American Literature] Reference
In the course of the reign of Justinian, we get references at first hand to India, and coupled withal to a general theory of cosmography. From Wordnik.com. [The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest] Reference
A commission, signed in 1496, was granted to him and his three sons, Lewis, Sebastian, and Sanctius, who were skilful in navigation and cosmography. From Wordnik.com. [How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900] Reference
In the Catalan map of the world, which was the standard example of cosmography in the early days of Columbus, most of these mythical islands are marked. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Volume 1] Reference
Amsterdam, the friend and pupil of Tycho Brahe, and the first in that line of typographers who made the name famous, constituted an epoch in cosmography. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
He gave much attention to the study of cosmography, and left to his family a number of drawings and writings on the subject of distances and measurements. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 05 ( of 10) Andrea da Fiesole to Lorenzo Lotto] Reference
A physical cosmography, or picture of the universe, should begin, not with the earth, but with the regions of space -- the distribution of matter in the universe. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science] Reference
Secondly, because he made chemistry, cosmography, and physics so pleasant -- and even reconciled me at last to the differential and integral calculus (but never Barty!). From Wordnik.com. [The Martian] Reference
It is by these relations that the obscure and much-contested problem of the possibility of one common descent enters into the sphere embraced by a general physical cosmography. From Wordnik.com. [The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II.] Reference
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