''Cosmographia'' (

Latin Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins (Italic tribe), Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area aroun ...

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κόσμος, "world, universe", and γραφή, "representation") may refer to:

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*''Cosmographia'', an alternative name for Ptolemy's ''

Geographia The ''Geography'' (, , "Geographical Guidance"), also known by its Latin names as the ' and the ', is a gazetteer, an atlas, and a treatise on cartography, compiling the geographical knowledge of the 2nd-century Roman Empire. Originally wri ...

'' *''Cosmographia'', a late antique or early medieval geographical work by

Julius Honorius Julius Honorius, also known as Julius Orator, was a teacher of geography during Late Antiquity. He is known only by a single work, ''Cosmographia'', which is a set of notes he had written down by one of his students while he lectured about a world ...

*''Cosmographia'', an early medieval geographical work feigned to record the travels of one

Aethicus Ister Aethicus Ister (Aethicus Donares, Aethicus of 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 Church Father Jerome), who purportedly censo ...

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Ravenna Cosmography The ''Ravenna Cosmography'' (, "The Cosmography of the Unknown Ravennese") is a work describing the Ecumene, known world from India to Ireland, compiled by an anonymous cleric in Ravenna around 700 AD. It consists of five books describing ...

'', a seventh- or eighth-century work by an anonymous of Ravenna * ''Cosmographia'' (Bernardus Silvestris), a twelfth-century allegory by Bernardus Silvestris *''Cosmographia'', a fifteenth-century work by the German geographer

Nicolaus Germanus Nicolaus Germanus () was a German cartographer who modernized Ptolemy's ''Geography'' by applying new projections, adding additional maps, and contributing other innovations that were influential in the development of Renaissance cartography. N ...

*''Cosmographia'', an alternative title of

Petrus Apianus Petrus Apianus (April 16, 1495 – April 21, 1552), also known as Peter Apian, Peter Bennewitz, and Peter Bienewitz, was a German humanist, known for his works in mathematics, astronomy and cartography. His work on " cosmography", the field that d ...

' sixteenth-century ''Cosmographicus liber'' * ''Cosmographia'' (Sebastian Münster), a sixteenth-century work by the German geographer Sebastian Münster *''Cosmographia'', a sixteenth-century work by the Portuguese geographer

Bartolomeu Velho Bartolomeu Velho (died 1568) was a sixteenth-century Portuguese cartographer and cosmographer. Velho prepared the Carta General do Orbe (General Chart of the Globe) in 1561 for Sebastian of Portugal Sebastian ( ; 20 January 1554 – 4 Augus ...

*''Cosmographia'', a sixteenth-century treatise by the Italian

Francesco Maurolico Francesco Maurolico (Latin: ''Franciscus Maurolycus''; Italian language, Italian: ''Francesco Maurolico''; ; Sicilian language, Sicilian: ''Francescu Maurolicu''; 16 September 1494 – 22 July 1575) was an Italian mathematician and astronomer fr ...

*''Cosmographia Blaviana'', an alternative name for Joan Blaeu's ''

Atlas Maior The ''Atlas Maior'' is the final version of Joan Blaeu's atlas, published in Amsterdam between 1662 and 1672, in Latin (11 volumes), French (12 volumes), Dutch (9 volumes), German (10 volumes) and Spanish (10 volumes), containing 594 maps and ...

Maps

*'' Universalis Cosmographia'', a sixteenth-century map by Martin Waldseemüller, the first to feature the name "America"

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Maps

See also