![]() ![]() The word cosmos often suggested especially "the universe as an embodiment of order and harmony. Kosmos also was used in Christian religious writing with a sense of "worldly life, this world (as opposed to the afterlife)," but the more frequent word for this was aiōn, literally "lifetime, age." For specific reference to "the world of people," the classical phrase was he oikoumene (ge) "the inhabited (earth)." Septuagint uses both kosmos and oikoumene. Pythagoras is said to have been the first to apply this word to "the universe," perhaps originally meaning "the starry firmament," but it later was extended to the whole physical world, including the earth. Microcosm (video game), a 1993 shoot 'em up by Psygnosis. ![]() ![]() Microcosm (CERN), a museum near Geneva, Switzerland. Macrocosm and microcosm, a philosophical idea. Thus kosmos had an important secondary sense of "ornaments of a woman's dress, decoration" (compare kosmokomes "dressing the hair," and cosmetic) as well as "the universe, the world." Microcosm may refer to: Microcosm, a literary term used to describe how a large world/society can be illustrated in the form of a small world. 1200, "the universe, the world" (but not popular until 1848, when it was taken as the English equivalent to Humboldt's Kosmos in translations from German), from Latinized form of Greek kosmos "order, good order, orderly arrangement," a word with several main senses rooted in those notions: The verb kosmein meant generally "to dispose, prepare," but especially "to order and arrange (troops for battle), to set (an army) in array " also "to establish (a government or regime) " "to deck, adorn, equip, dress" (especially of women). ![]()
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