Definition of "cosmographical" []

• Of or pertaining to cosmography. (adjective)

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• "The earliest appearance of it in England is in a book printed by John Day in 1559, William Cunningham's The cosmographical glasse."
• "Polus 'lies, correct those errors in navigation, reform cosmographical charts, and rectify longitudes, if it were possible; not by the compass, as some dream, with Mark Ridley in his treatise of magnetical bodies, cap."
• "Of the several generally recognized theories of the interpretation of myth: the historical, or euhemeristic; the physical, or cosmographical; the allegorical; and the allegorical-theological, the writers of the seven - teenth century seem to have been chiefly occupied with the latter two, and it is interesting that each of these theories finds respective support from two of the most eminent literary figures who lived at the turn of the century."