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Cosmology   /kɔzmˈɔlədʒi/   Listen
Cosmology

noun
1.
The metaphysical study of the origin and nature of the universe.
2.
The branch of astrophysics that studies the origin and evolution and structure of the universe.  Synonyms: cosmogeny, cosmogony.





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"Cosmology" Quotes from Famous Books



... of vortices was indeed soon disclosed to be untenable; but the scientific attitude from which that hypothesis proceeded was never afterward relinquished. It was a bold attempt at the application of the objective method, and was only defective in its restriction to cosmology, and its exclusion of biology, which was still left to the subjective method, as ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 • Various


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