cosmography
- n the science that maps the general features of the universe; describes both heaven and earth (but without encroaching on geography or astronomy)
- n a representation of the earth or the heavens
the cosmography of Ptolemy
- When, at 16, he entered the Paris Observatory, he had already written a volume on cosmography.
- From the dry and brittle bones of paleontology to the vast reaches of cosmography.
- When this stance was undermined by modern cosmography and anthropology, the church began promoting instead increasingly reason-divorced myth-dogma, e.