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- Cosmographia (Latin, from Gr**** κόσμος, "world, universe", and γραφή, "representation") may refer to: Cosmographia, an alternative name for Ptolemy's Geographia...
- The Cosmographia ("Cosmography") from 1544 by Sebastian Münster (1488–1552) is the earliest German-language description of the world. It had numerous editions...
- The Waldseemüller map or Universalis Cosmographia ("Universal Cosmography") is a printed wall map of the world by the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller...
- Cosmographia et geographia de Affrica ("Cosmography and geography of Africa") is a work completed by Leo Afric**** March 10, 1526. The text from this work...
- Nicolaus Germ**** (c. 1420 – c. 1490) was a German cartographer who modernized Ptolemy's Geography by applying new projections, adding additional maps...
- Istria or Aethicus Ister) was the protagonist of the 7th/8th-century Cosmographia, purportedly written by a man of church Hieronymus (Jerome, but not the...
- University of Basel. His well-known work, the highly accurate world map, Cosmographia, sold well and went through 24 editions. Its influence was widely spread...
- Cosmographia ("Cosmography"), also known as De mundi universitate ("On the totality of the world"), is a Latin philosophical allegory, dealing with the...
- land. In 1507 Martin Waldseemüller published a world map, Universalis Cosmographia, which was the first to show North and South America as separate from...
- accompany Martin Waldseemüller's printed globe and wall-map (Universalis Cosmographia). The book and map contain the first mention of the term 'America'. Waldseemüller's...