cosmographie

The 'very witty and sharpe discourses' are his _Micro-cosmographie_, first published anonymously in 1628. l.

Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various

Temple, at a time when I found lying open upon his borde certeine bookes of cosmographie, with an universall mappe; he seeing me somewhat curious in the view thereof, began to instruct my ignorance, by showing me the division of the earth into three parts, after the old account, and then, according to the latter and better distribution, into more.

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure Various 1909

He could see the satellites of Jupiter with the naked eye; this was often tested by M. Dumollard, maître de mathématiques (et de cosmographie), who had a telescope, which, with a little good-will on the gazer's part, made Jupiter look as big as the moon, and its moons like stars of the first magnitude.

The Martian George Du Maurier 1865

¶ There be also certen kindes of sportes meete for chyldren, wherwyth theyr earnest studye must somwhat be eased after they be come to that, they muste lerne those higher thynges whyche can not be perceiued wythoute diligence and laboure: as are the handling of Themes, to turne latine into Greeke, or greeke into latine, or to learne cosmographie wythout booke.

The Education of Children Desiderius Erasmus 1502

Ther appeareth also in the very chyldren a certen peculier redines to some sciences, as vnto musicke, arithmetique, or cosmographie.

The Education of Children Desiderius Erasmus 1502

(quoth he) to this effecte, to goe to finde the Easte Indies by the north west, that which one of your citie hath done, which is so skilfull in the arte of navigacion and cosmographie, that he hath not his like in Spaine at this day?

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584

Philosophie, "also in verse, being an" abrégé de cosmographie et de géographie, "" Romania, "xv.p. 255.

A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand