- The term
cosmography has two
distinct meanings:
traditionally it has been the
protoscience of
mapping the
general features of the cosmos,
heaven and Earth;...
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Philesius Vogesigena was an
Alsatian German humanist scholar and
cosmographer.
Along with
cartographer Martin Waldseemüller, he is
credited with the...
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Toscanelli (1397 – 10 May 1482) was an
Italian mathematician, astronomer, and
cosmographer.
Paolo dal
Pozzo Toscanelli was born in Florence, the son of the physician...
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school or the "Catalan school"
refers to a
collection of cartographers,
cosmographers, and
navigational instrument makers who
flourished in
Mallorca and partly...
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writings demonstrated a
familiarity with the work of the
classic Gr****
cosmographers,
Ptolemy and Strabo, and the more
recent work of
Florentine astronomer...
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Petrus Nonius; 1502 – 11
August 1578) was a
Portuguese mathematician,
cosmographer, and professor,
probably from a New
Christian (of
Jewish origin) family...
- P-L
Martin Behaim (1459–1507) was a
German merchant,
astronomer and
cosmographer from Nürnberg. He
traveled through Europe and
became a
Portuguese knight...
- dal
Pozzo Toscanelli (1397–1482) was an
Italian physician, astronomer,
cosmographer and mathematician.
Columbus may have used his map of the
world on the...
- 3–4. Staab,
Franz (1976). "A
study of some
sources of the
Anonymous Cosmographer of Ravenna".
Viator (Medieval and
Renaissance Studies). Vol. 7. University...
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studying the most
recent charts, investigating, in
partnership with
cosmographer Rui Faleiro, a
gateway from the
Atlantic to the
South Pacific and the...
