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cosmology|kɒzˈmɒlədʒɪ|
[ad. mod.L. cosmologia, a. Gr. type *κοσµολογία, f. κόσµο-ς world + -λογια discourse. Cf. F. cosmologie.]
The science or theory of the universe as an ordered whole, and of the general laws which govern it. Also, a particular account or system of the universe and its laws.
1656Blount Glossogr., Cosmology, a speaking of the world. 1735B. Martin Philos. Gram. 101 By Cosmology is implied a philosophical or physiological Discourse of the World, or Universe in general. 1802Playfair Illustr. Hutton. Th. 132 In the cosmologies..of Leibnitz and Buffon, fire and water are both employed. 1876Gladstone Homeric Synchr. 221 It throws..a most important light on Homer's cosmology.
b. Philos. That branch of metaphysics which deals with the idea of the world as a totality of all phenomena in space and time.
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Cosmology, the science of the world in general. This Wolfius calls general, or transcendental cosmology. 1867J. H. Stirling Schwegler's Hist. Philos. (ed. 8) 205 Metaphysics..are subdivided [by Wolff] into Ontology, Cosmology, Psychology, Natural Theology. 1874W. Wallace Hegel's Logic 58 The third branch of Metaphysics was Cosmology. The topics it embraced were the world, its contingency, necessity, eternity, limitation in time and space, etc. 1889Caird Kant II. 39 Rational Cosmology deals with the idea of the world as a totality of phenomena in one time and space. |