10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COSMOGRAPHIST»
Discover the use of
cosmographist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
cosmographist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha,1: ...
Then as to annotations,when you are speaking of giants, hawl in Goliah, and
sagaciously inform the reader that Golias or Goliah was a Philistine, whom the
shepherd David flew with a stone. Should you wish to be thought a
cosmographist, ...
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1774
2
Books on Colour Since 1500: A History and Bibliography of ...
BL LC YFB] 1716 FUNCK, Johann Caspar (Funccius, 1680-1729) Ulm (Germany
) Optics Liber de coloribus coeli ('Book on sky colours') Daniel [German
cosmographist. On a six-colour system: 249 Bartholomaï pages. Revision of
Dissertatio ...
3
The discovery and geognosy of gold deposits in Australia
... Columbus to persevere in an undertaking so laudable, and which must
redound so much to the honour of his country and the benefit of Europe ;" and the
reader will ask, did the gold discoverer consult with any cosmographist who, like
Paul, ...
His more learned contemporary Lightfoot, who steered a safer but not so straight
a course, met with an adventure not unlike that of Heylyn's in the forest ; but the
application, which in the cosmographist's case was ridiculously made by an ...
5
A History of Trade & Commerce in Travancore, 1600-1805
... twenty-five charts of the African, Indian and Chinese seas from the scholar
Peter Plancius, who in his turn and procured them from the Cosmographist
Bartolomeo de Lasso who occupied an official position in Spain." 4. T.I. Poonen,
op. cit., p.
There were also words like chirographer [1400] from F chirographaire 'id.'
adapted with -er. These various types institutionalized -er with -graph- but not
without some variation, like cosmographer [a.1527] ~ cosmographist 13.8
Summary ...
... safer but not so straight a course, met with an adventure not unlike that of
Heylyn's in the forest; but the application which in the cosmographist's case was
ridiculously made by an ignorant and simple man, was in this instance self-
originated.
Robert Southey, John Wood Warter, 1865
8
The Scholastic Register, and Educational Advertiser
executed terrestrial globes. In 1559, he settled at Duisbourg, as cosmographist to
the Grand D uke of Cleves. He was the best map-maker of his time, and is said to
have invented the plan of laying-down maps and charts by a projection of the ...
9
The Dutch Power in Kerala, 1729-1758
... of his possession of twenty five charts of the African, Indian and Chinese seas.
He secured them from Peter Plancius, a scholar who in turn obtained them from
Bartholomeo de Lasso, the Cosmographist, an officer in the government service ...
10
Science and literature in the Middle ages and at the period ...
German Astronomer and Cosmographist. — Fac-simile of a Wood Engraving of
the Sixteenth Centurv, hy J. Amman. completed and perfected by Alfonso of
Cordova, a Seville physician, who also published some excellent astronomical
tables.
