cosmography

"Or again," said he, "the author may show himself to be an astronomer, or a skilled cosmographer, or musician, or one versed in affairs of state, and sometimes he will have a chance of coming forward as a magician if he likes.

Here we concentrate first on Jean Rotz's 1542 Mappa Mundi as a source because (a) it is one of the earliest of the Dieppe maps and, presumably, closer to the source material; (b) it is explicitly projected and it displays a graticular network of latitude and longitude; (c) it is the only one of the maps to have 'Metadata' (Rotz's Boke of Idrology, reproduced in facsimile by Wallis, 1981a) and (d) it does not show the imaginary great southern landmass postulated by many cosmographers.

The topics include why it was necessary for neo-Latin authors to coin new words, the Certamen poeticum Hoeufftianum and the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), the poets as philosophers of practical action: Sophocles and Ovid in Niels Hemmingsen's De lege naturae apodictica methodus, a catalogue of learned women in the Latin schoolroom letters of Queen Mary Stuart of Scotland, a sojourner in Florence: Neoplatonic themes in the Hymni naturales of Marullus, humanist cosmographers, searching for equivalents: Exempla Latina in Szymon Birkowski's edition of De compositione verborum, and Pietro Paulo Palumbo's Non Recedat Volumen (1573): illustrated elegiacs and Japanese Christians.

Boas concluded that, although they are in opposite camps, physicists and cosmographers aspire after the same thing: "to find the eternal truth."

One institutional point of this conflict is found in the efforts of the academy of cosmographers at Seville to train the sailors and pilots who actually went to sea in the new, mathematically-based discipline (Padron, Spacious 46-51).

Protocols leading to a uniform system of observation and collection, an ability to study, analyze, and ensure continuity--in short, specific social and institutional conditions--became necessary to shape the way naturalists, botanists, cosmographers, and ecclesiastics in the field looked at the world.

Travellers and Cosmographers: Studies in the History of Early Modern Travel and Ethnology.

For this purpose, he hired prominent cosmographers Alonso de Santa Cruz (c.

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His convincing reasoning sheds new light on the relationship between "Ringmann, the writer, and Waldseemuller, the mapmaker." His analysis of the learned puns encoded in the Greek version of the name of America proposed in the Saint-Die cosmographers' Introduction to Ptolemy is satisfying.