Cosmographia
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Cosmographia may refer to:
Written works
- Cosmographia, an alternative name for Ptolemy's Geographia
- Cosmographia, an early medieval geographical work feigned to record the travels of one Aethicus IsterAethicus IsterAethicus Ister was the protagonist of the 7th/8th-century Cosmographia written by a man of church Hieronymus. It describes the travels of Aethicus around the world, and includes descriptions of foreign peoples in usually less than favourable terms...
- Ravenna CosmographyRavenna CosmographyThe Ravenna Cosmography was compiled by an anonymous cleric in Ravenna around AD 700. It consists of a list of place-names covering the world from India to Ireland. Textual evidence indicates that the author frequently used maps as his source....
, a seventh- or eighth-century work by an anonymous of Ravenna - Cosmographia (Bernard Silvestris)Cosmographia (Bernard Silvestris)Cosmographia is a Latin philosophical allegory, dealing with the creation of the universe, by the twelfth-century author Bernard Silvestris. In form, it is a prosimetrum, in which passages of prose alternate with verse passages in various classical meters...
, a twelfth-century allegory by Bernard Silvestris - Cosmographia, a fifteenth-century work by the German geographer Nicolaus GermanusNicolaus GermanusDonnus Nicolaus Germanus was a German cartographer who wrote a pioneering Cosmographia and created two globes depicting earth and sky in 1477, thus predating the Erdapfel of Martin Behaim....
- Cosmographiae IntroductioCosmographiae IntroductioCosmographiae Introductio was a book published in 1507 to accompany Martin Waldseemüller's printed globe and wall-map , which were the first appearance of the name 'America'...
, a book accompanying Martin Waldseemüller's map Universalis Cosmographia - Cosmographia (Sebastian Münster)Cosmographia (Sebastian Münster)The Cosmographia by Sebastian Münster from 1544 is the earliest German description of the world. It had numerous editions in different languages including Latin, French , Italian, English, and even Czech. The last German edition was published in 1628, long after his death...
, a sixteenth-century work by the German geographer Sebastian Münster - Cosmographia, a sixteenth-century work by the Portuguese geographer Bartolomeu VelhoBartolomeu VelhoBartolomeu Velho was a sixteenth-century Portuguese mapmaker and cosmographer.Velho prepared the Carta General do Orbe in 1561 for Sebastian of Portugal....
- Cosmographia, a sixteenth-century treatise by the Italian Francesco MaurolicoFrancesco MaurolicoFrancesco Maurolico was a Greek mathematician and astronomer of Sicily. Throughout his lifetime, he made contributions to the fields of geometry, optics, conics, mechanics, music, and astronomy...
Maps
- Universalis Cosmographia, a sixteenth-century map by Martin Waldseemüller, the first to feature the name "America"