cosmography

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

COSMOGRAPHY, noun [Gr., the world, to describe.] A description of the world or universe; or the art which teaches the construction of the whole system of worlds, or the figure, disposition and the relation of all its parts, and the manner of representing them on a plane.
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