- The term
cosmography has two
distinct meanings:
traditionally it has been the
protoscience of
mapping the
general features of the cosmos,
heaven and Earth;...
- The
Ravenna Cosmography (Latin:
Ravennatis Anonymi Cosmographia, lit. "The
Cosmography of the
Unknown Ravennese") is a work
describing the
known world...
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Norse cosmology is the
account of the
universe and its laws by the
ancient North Germanic peoples. The
topic encomp****es
concepts from
Norse mythology...
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streams downwards.
Whereas the
structure of the
cosmos is the
domain of
cosmography, the
origins of the
cosmos is the
domain of cosmogony.
Cosmogony and...
- or
Iranian cosmology refers to the
origins (cosmogony) and
structure (
cosmography) of the
cosmos in Zoroastrianism.
Zoroastrian literature describing cosmographical...
- and the
Marvels of
Creation is an
important work of
paradoxography and
cosmography by ****iya al-Qazwini, who was born in
Qazwin in 1203
shortly before...
- Kuyūthā (Arabic: كيوثاء) is the
cosmic bull in
medieval Islamic cosmography. It is said to
carry on its back the
angel who
shoulders the
earth and the...
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Eastern civilizations held to a
fairly uniform conception of
cosmography. This
cosmography remained remarkably stable in the
context of the expansiveness...
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Cosmographiae Introductio ("Introduction to
Cosmography"; Saint-Dié, 1507) is a book that was
published in 1507 to
accompany Martin Waldseemüller's printed...
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source of
inspiration and
knowledge for humans,
having been
crucial to
cosmography, mythology, religion, art, time keeping,
natural science, and spaceflight...
