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political concepts into his
geographical books Microcosmus in 1621 and
Cosmographie (1657).
Heylyn was born in Burford, Oxfordshire, the son of
Henry Heylyn...
- John
Taylor (24
August 1578 –
December 1653) was an
English poet who
dubbed himself "The
Water Poet". John
Taylor was born in the
parish of St. Ewen's...
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Illustration of the
Wawel Dragon from
Sebastian Münster's
Cosmographie Universalis (1544)....
- East in 1554, he
published an
account of his
voyage under the
title Cosmographie du Levant. On his
return from the Americas,
Thevet published a book titled...
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deviation and the
existence of
magnetic poles.
Peter Heylin's 1652 book
Cosmographie (enlarged from his
Microcosmos of 1621) was one of the
earliest attempts...
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Journal of the
Brazilian Institute of
History and
Geography from André Thevet's La
Cosmographie Universelle published thirty years before the
example below....
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separate continents. In the mid-17th century,
Peter Heylin wrote in his
Cosmographie that "A
Continent is a
great quantity of Land, not
separated by any Sea...
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objects of ridicule. The
antiquary was
satirised in John Earle's Micro-
cosmographie of 1628 ("Hee is one that hath that
unnaturall disease to bee enamour'd...
- and
usually now lost.
Seven years after visiting Giza, André Thévet (
Cosmographie de Levant, 1556)
described the
Sphinx as "the head of a colossus, caused...
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Wawel Dragon Smok
Wawelski The
Wawel Dragon, in
Sebastian Münster's
Cosmographie Universalis (1544)...
