cosmology

     

Cosmology, from the Greek: κοσμολογία (cosmologia, κόσμος (cosmos) orer + λογος (logos) word, reason, plan) is the quantitative (usually mathematical) study of the Universe in its totality, and by extension, humanity's place in it. Though the word cosmology is recent (first used in 1730 in Christian Wolff's Cosmologia Generalis), study of the Universe has a long history involving science, philosophy, esotericism, and religion.

Trivia about cosmology

  • The Big Bang is something you'd learn about in this, the study of the universe
  • The branch of astronomy that deals with the structure & evolution of the universe
  • The first Greek philosophers tried to understand the universe, practicing this -ology, from the Greek for "order"

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