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galactographer en · NOUN

Etymology

From galactography (“science of charting and mapping galaxies”) + -er. Coined by American science fiction author Edmond Hamilton in his 1965 novelette The Shores of Infinity.

Meanings

1. A specialist in galactography.
   • Some galactographers have estimated that there may be up to ten thousand inhabited planets that aren't listed at all. 1982, Isaac Asimov, Foundation's Edge, →ISBN, page 99:
   • It seems like these 'cats might be left over from wetter days. I found a brief study of Rhyl done by a couple galactographers, and they reported this was once a cooler planet. 1978, Robert Edward Vardeman, The Sandcats of Rhyl, →ISBN:
   • Early galactographers had defined it as that part of the galaxy which lay between the eastern and southern kingdoms, and the edge of the island-universe. 1965 April, Edmond Hamilton, “The Shores of Infinity”, in Amazing Stories, volume 39, number 4, page 24:

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