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Cosmos
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1. Cosmos and order“The Greeks have borrowed a name for the universe from ornament, on account of the variety of the elements and the beauty of the stars. For it is called among them
kosmos. … For with the eyes of the flesh we see nothing fairer than the universe.” (Isidore of Seville,
De mundo 13,1; c. 600 CE). Likewise through the modern period and to the present, cosmology—the study of the cosmos (generally synonymous with “universe,” and also with “world” in its comprehensive sense)—has continued to be related not only to physics and astronom…
Date:
2019-10-14