This doctrine [the nebular hypothesis] supposes all the material universe to have been once in a fluid or nebular condition, and that, by the operation of universal gravitation and the thousand other laws of nature, the nebular matter has been mainly aggregated into masses, and the existingcosmoi been developed.
1865, George Grote, “Speculative Philosophy in Greece, before and in the Time of Sokrates”, inPlato, and the Other Companions ofSokrates.[…], volume I, London:John Murray,[…],→OCLC,pages6–7:
It [the earth] was in the centre of theKosmos; it remained stationary because of its equal distance from all parts of the outer revolving spheres; there was no cause determining it to move upward rather than downward or sideways, therefore it remained still. Its exhalations nourished the fire in the peripheral regions of theKosmos.
Can you conceive a process by which you, an organic being, are in the same way dissolved into thecosmos, and then by a subtle reversal of the conditions reassembled once more?"
TheCosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of theCosmos stir us—there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.
2001, Andrew Gregory, “The Origins of the Cosmos and of Life: Consider Your Origins”, in Jon Turney, editor,Eureka! The Birth of Science (Revolutions in Science), Duxford, Cambridgeshire: Icon Books; Totem Books,→ISBN,page98:
Along with this question of order was the question of whether there was onecosmos or many ‘cosmoi’.Plato andAristotle firmly believed that there was one uniquecosmos that was in some way structured for the best. The atomists, on the other hand, believed that there were manycosmoi, separate from one another, in which everything happened by chance.
In seeking a satisfactory formulation of materialism, it helps to employ the notion of apossible world. Possible worlds are plausibly construed not literally as universes other than the single real universe (i.e., not ascosmoi), but rather astotal ways thecosmos might be—i.e., maximalproperties instantiable by the single real world (the singlecosmos). On this usage, the item designated as the actual world—considered as one among the various possible worlds—is not itself thecosmos either, but rather is the totalcosmos-instantiable property that isactually instantiated by thecosmos. But it will be convenient in practice to speak as though the actual world is thecosmos and as though other possible worlds are other suchcosmoi — a harmless enough manner of speaking, as long as one bears in mind that it is not intended literally.
In Dr[Christof] Wetterich's picture of thecosmos the redshift others attribute to expansion is, rather, the result of the universe putting on weight. If atoms weighed less in the past, he reasons, the light they emitted then would, in keeping with the laws of quantum mechanics, have been less energetic than the light they emit now.
This simple cell is acosmos in this respect: it represents the laws of the universe in changes of matter, and clearly exemplifies their workings in the oral cavity.
2022, Tobias Baitsch, Amita Bhide, “Politics of Land Use Regulations”, in Luca Pattaroni, Amita Bhide, Christine Lutringer, editors,Politics of Urban Planning: The Making and Unmaking of the Mumbai Development Plan 2014–2034 (Exploring Urban Change in South Asia), Singapore:Springer Nature Singapore,→DOI,→ISBN,→ISSN,page87:
Obviously, there are multiplecosmoses in the debate, out of which we picked four. The two first can be understood as compromisecosmoses.[…] There is thecosmos of the reformer, which took by and large shape in the EDDP and which we entitledPublic Future. Then there is thecosmos of the existing mode of ordering the city which by and large prevailed in the RDDP.[…] Further, we present twocosmoses nurturing the strong opposition. They are both militant perspectives surging from the "civil society".
He [Frederick I of Prussia] founded Universities, this poor King; University of Halle; Royal Academy of Berlin,[Gottfried Wilhelm] Leibniz presiding: he fought for Protestantism;—did what he could for the cause ofCosmosversus Chaos, after his fashion.
1840,[Jane] Loudon, “Compositæ”, inThe Ladies’ Flower-garden of Ornamental Annuals, London: William Smith,[…],→OCLC,pages184–185:
This beautiful plant was discovered in Mexico, before 1789; as seeds of it sent to Madrid produced plants, which blossomed in that year in the Royal Botanic Garden of Spain. It was first described and figured in 1797, by[Antonio José] Cavanilles, who called itCosmos, from the Greek word Kosmos, beautiful; but this name was afterwards altered by[Carl Ludwig] Willdenow to Cosmea, as being more consistent with the rules of botanical nomenclature.
COSMOS DIVERSIFOLIUS; var.atro-sanguineus.Various-leavedCosmos; deep blood-flowered var.[…] Seeds of this plant were received by Mr. Thompson, of Ipswich, from Mexico. It is doubtless a handsome species ofCosmos. The question is if it can be safely referred to any described species.
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