Other forms: cosmologies
Cosmology is the study of how the universe is made and began. Modern cosmology.
It is the one science with a single object of study, since there is only one universe to look at. Cosmology became a measuring science rather than a philosophical one within living memory.
1nouncosmologyThe study of how the universe is made and began.
“Cosmology answered in one decade what philosophy had argued for centuries.”
cosmology is a science.
Medieval Latin cosmologia comes from Greek kosmos, the world, plus logia, study.
Ancient Greek
κόσμος — world
Medieval Latin
cosmologia
English, today
cosmology
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From Medieval Latin cosmologia, from Ancient Greek κόσμος (“world”) + -λογία (“treating of”), combination form of -λόγος (“one who speaks (in a certain manner)”). by surface analysis, cosmo- + -logy.
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