noun
definition
The creation of maps of the universe.
definition
The study of the size and geometry of the universe and changes in those with cosmic time.
Examples of cosmography in a Sentence
It is distinguished from cosmography by dealing Cluverius.
From the time the law of Copernicus was discovered and proved, the mere recognition of the fact that it was not the sun but the earth that moves sufficed to destroy the whole cosmography of the ancients.
During the rapid development of physical geography many branches of the study of nature, which had been included in the cosmography of the early writers, the physiography of Linnaeus and even the Erdkunde of Ritter, had been as so much advanced by the labours of specialists that their connexion was apt to be forgotten.
Arrived at Venice, he seems to have occupied himself chiefly with studies in mathematics and cosmography.
History Temples and images are eternal in the Jain tradition, being involved in Jain cosmography.
The " survey " ordered by Julius Caesar is referred to in the legend, evidently derived from the Cosmography of blare magnum sive medi-.