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cosmography

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A description of the world or of the universe; or the science which teaches the constitution of the whole system of worlds, or the figure, disposition, and relation of all its parts.

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the cosmography of Ptolemy Source: Internet

Henig M. & Booth P. 2000, Roman Oxfordshire, pgs.118-9 Tamese was referred to as a place, not a river in the Ravenna Cosmography (c. 700 AD). Source: Internet

It was at this time that the Ravenna Cosmography was written. Source: Internet

The Ravenna Cosmography of about 700AD cites Agiation, citation (Latin) main. Source: Internet

The Rise of the Spanish Empire in the Old World and in the New (Vol. 1. London: Macmillan, 1918) * Portuondo, María M. Secret Science: Spanish Cosmography and the New World (Chicago: Chicago UP, 2009). Source: Internet

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