Cosmography
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The term cosmography has two distinct meanings: traditionally it has been the
Premodern views of cosmography can be traditionally divided into those following the tradition of ancient near eastern cosmology, dominant in the Ancient Near East and in early Greece.
Traditional usage
The 14th-century work
In 1551,
In 1659, Thomas Porter published a smaller, but extensive Compendious Description of the Whole World, which also included a
Modern usage
In astrophysics, the term "cosmography" is beginning to be used to describe attempts to determine the large-scale matter distribution and kinematics of the observable universe, dependent on the Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker metric but independent of the temporal dependence of the scale factor on the matter/energy composition of the Universe.[1][2] The word was also commonly used by Buckminster Fuller in his lectures.
Using the
See also
- Johann Bayer
- Andreas Cellarius
- Cosmographia
- Julius Schiller
- Star cartography
- Chronology of the Universe
- Cosmogony
- Cosmology
- Timeline of knowledge about galaxies, clusters of galaxies, and large-scale structure
- Large-scale structure of the cosmos
- Timeline of astronomical maps, catalogs, and surveys
References
- ISBN 978-0-471-92567-5.
- S2CID 119414427.
- arXiv:2310.16053.
- S2CID 205240232.