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Cosmographer   Listen
noun
Cosmographer  n.  One who describes the world or universe, including the heavens and the earth. "The name of this island is nowhere found among the old and ancient cosmographers."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Cosmographer" Quotes from Famous Books



... John Ogilby, or Ogilvy, who died in 1676, aged 76, was originally a dancing-master, then Deputy Master of the Revels in Dublin; then, after the outbreak of the Irish Rebellion, a student of Latin and Greek in Cambridge. Finally, he settled down as a cosmographer. He produced translations of both Virgil and Homer into English verse. His 'Virgil', published in 1649, was handsomely printed and the first which gave the entire works in English, nearly half a century before Dryden's which appeared ...
— The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 - With Translations and Index for the Series • Joseph Addison and Richard Steele

... it should be said, he sees in Vespucci only the man of science, the student, the cosmographer, and, with the gentle dignity inseparable from this man who had appeared before kings and at courts, he compliments his host upon his collection. They are soon in earnest consultation, scanning the sea-charts, ...
— Amerigo Vespucci • Frederick A. Ober



Words linked to "Cosmographer" :   cosmographist



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