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Excerpt from The Good Book, and Amenities of Nature, or Annals of Historical and Natural Sciences: Containing Selections of Observations, Researches, and Novelties in All the Branches of Physical and Historical Knowledge, With Letters of Eminent Authors, Chiefly on Zoology, Botany, Agronomy, Geognosy, Ethnography
The former or first division was into 3 great sciences 1, physics or Natural Philosophy, teaching the laws, fonctions and phenomena of bodies - 2, chemistry 451 Natural Analysis, teaching to decompose and recompose the ele ments of bodies - 3, cosmosy, (cosmony 1815) the most important and primary, and that may almost include the whole. This name derived from Cosmos, a greek term for world (and beautiful) was first used by me in 1815; it must not be blended with Cosmogony, that inquires into the origin of the world, nor with Cosmo graphy that describes it like Geography. Tho logy or Tholosy synonyms deriving from Tho los another term for world, would have been still nearer Theology and Zoology.
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