cosmography

This includes highlighting the knowledge of the past — be it stories, tools or cosmography.

This view, that the agglomerate of earth and water was not a perfect sphere, was universally accepted in the later Middle Ages, and the new cosmography required its refutation.

His map, so Brotton convincingly demonstrates, "was part of a cosmography that aimed to transcend the theological persecution and division of sixteenth-century Europe."

But however poor, he found means to leave his native city, Genoa, and study astronomy, geometry, and cosmography, at the University of Pavia.

A strange sort of cosmography had grown out of this ill-assorted reading.