Cosmology is as old as humankind.
Once primitive socal groups developed language, it was a short step to making their first attempts to understand the world around them.
Very early cosmology, from Neolithic times of 20,000 to 100,000 years ago, was extremely local.
The Universe was what you immediately interacted with..
Cosmos comes from the Greek word kosmos, which means world or universe, and cosmology comes from cosmos.
Don't confuse cosmology with cosmetology, which is the study of beauty treatments.
Definitions of cosmology. the metaphysical study of the origin and nature of the universe. type of: metaphysics..
From Greek kosmo-, combining form of k\xf3smos “order, good order, government, world order, the universe”; see origin at cosmos..
Cosmology (from Ancient Greek κόσμος (cosmos) 'the universe, the world', and λογία (logia) 'study of') is a branch of physics and metaphysics dealing with the nature of the universe..
Cosmos comes from the Greek word kosmos, which means world or universe, and cosmology comes from cosmos.
Don't confuse cosmology with cosmetology, which is the study of beauty treatments..
cosmic (adj.)
1640s, "worldly, of this world," a sense now obsolete, from Latinized form of Greek kosmikos "worldly, earthly, of the world," from kosmos "world-order, world" (see cosmos).
Cosmical "related to the earth" is attested from 1580s..
The branch of learning that deals with phenomena at the scale of many millions of light-years is called cosmology—a term derived from combining two Greek words, kosmos, meaning “order,” “harmony,” and “the world,” and logos, signifying “word” or “discourse.” Cosmology is, in effect, the study of the universe at large..
The branch of learning that deals with phenomena at the scale of many millions of light-years is called cosmology—a term derived from combining two Greek words, kosmos, meaning “order,” “harmony,” and “the world,” and logos, signifying “word” or “discourse.” Cosmology is, in effect, the study of the universe at large..
