The cosmorama, the pleorama, the myriorama (to name only three) — all in various ways sought to make the visible spectacular. 8.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making Visible: The Diorama, the Double and the (Gothic) Subject] Reference

And Raynal's cosmorama exactly hit the tastes of the hour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II.] Reference

In these days we are always too late, and those marvels of the Oriental cosmorama, those curious manners, those masterpieces of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of a Special Correspondent] Reference

A beautiful promenade near the Castle garden; visited the Museum; a large living serpent also an ant hedgehog; a good collection of stuffed birds besides, and also a cosmorama view of different cities, etc., in Europe.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Journey to America in 1834] Reference

Cooper Union was substituted for the museum; the conversation parlors for the various trades became class-rooms for instruction; the cosmorama yielded to lecture-halls and laboratories; and the roof was abandoned to the weather.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter Cooper The Riverside Biographical Series, Number 4] Reference

They should remember, what they uniformly and universally forget, that we are not invited, upon the rising of the curtain to behold a cosmorama, or picture of the world, but a representation of that part of it called Vanity Fair.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Potiphar Papers] Reference

They should remember, what they uniformly and universally forget, that we are not invited, upon the rising of the curtain, to behold a cosmorama, or picture of the world, but a representation of that part of it called Vanity Fair.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wit and Humor of America, Volume II. (of X.)] Reference

He wished that this means of mental improvement and recreation combined might be freely afforded to those whose scanty earnings would not permit them otherwise to make frequent use of it, and he resolved that the museum and the cosmorama should be included in his institution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter Cooper The Riverside Biographical Series, Number 4] Reference

There was also a lecture-room, devoted principally to moral melodrama; and on an upper floor a large room was occupied by the cosmorama, -- an exhibition of pictures, usually of noteworthy scenery, foreign cities, etc., which were looked at through round holes, enhancing the effect of their illumination.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter Cooper The Riverside Biographical Series, Number 4] Reference

8 The cosmorama consisted of rather small landscape scenes displayed conventionally in a gallery, but viewed in relief, through an arrangement of magnifying mirrors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making Visible: The Diorama, the Double and the (Gothic) Subject] Reference

In the exhibitions of the diorama and cosmorama there have been represented with admirable truth and beauty such phenomena as -- the sun-beams occasionally interrupted by passing clouds, and occasionally darting through the windows of a cathedral and illuminating the objects in its venerable interior -- the rising and disappearing of mist over a beautiful landscape, runningwater, as for instance the cascades among the sublime precipices of Mount St. Gothard in Switzerland; -- and most surprising of all, a fire or conflagration.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 405, December 19, 1829] Reference

And slowly, very slowly, this conglomerate human cosmorama moved on, undulating queerly with the variant movements of its component parts, snail-like, for the Flopper's pace was slow -- as strange a spectacle, perhaps, as the human eye had ever witnessed, something of grimness, something of humor, something of awe, something of fear exuding from it -- it seemed to contain within itself the range, and to express, the gamut of all human emotion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Miracle Man] Reference