Cosmos
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The cosmos is an alternative name for the universe or its nature or order. Usage of the word cosmos implies viewing the universe as a complex and orderly system or entity.
Stars rotating in the night sky
Flammarion engraving, Paris, 1888
Copernicus' Heliocentric Solar System
Excerpt from Philolaus Pythagoras book (Charles Peter Mason, 1870)
Nous
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Nous, from Ancient Greek: νοῦς, is a concept from classical philosophy, sometimes equated to intellect or intelligence, for the faculty of the human mind necessary for understanding what is true or re
Cosmos
…cosmetic). The philosopher Pythagoras used the term kósmos for the order of the universe. Anaxagoras further introduced the concept of a Cosmic Mind (nous) ordering all things. The 1870 book Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology noted…
The earliest surviving text that uses the word nous is the Iliad. Agamemnon says to Achilles: "Do not thus, mighty though you are, godlike Achilles, seek to deceive me with your wit (nous); for you will not get by me nor persuade me."
Anaxagoras