cosmographer
nounUK /kɒzˈmɒɡɹəfə/
Etymology From cosmography + -er, corresponding to cosmo- + -grapher.
1
Astrophysics A scientist specializing in understanding and describing the nature of the universe.
2
Obsolete Someone who describes the world; a geographer or anthropologist.
- And if it be (as Cosmographers report) that there are Nations, who receive and admit a Dogge to be their King, it must necessarily follow, that they give a certaine interpretations to his voice and moving.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- Synonyms
- cosmographist
- Related terms
- cosmologist, cosmology