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Definition of Cosmogonists
1. cosmogonist [n] - See also: cosmogonist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cosmogonists
Literary usage of Cosmogonists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Founders of Geology by Archibald Geikie (1905)
"FROM the middle of the seventeenth to the middle of the eighteenth century there
appeared at intervals on the Continent a series of cosmogonists of a very ..."
2. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"... divine cosmogonists agreeing herein with the atheistic ones) ; this tradition
having been delivered down from Orpheus and Linus (amongst the Greeks) by ..."
3. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1837)
"And that this cabala was thus understood by some of the ancient Pagan cosmogonists
themselves, appears plainly, not only from ..."
4. The North American Review by Making of America Project, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1824)
"The early cosmogonists did not confine their labors to the earth, but embraced
the sun, moon, stars, and the universe. The astronomer, Xenophanes, took the ..."
5. A Century of Science in America: With Special Reference to the American by Edward Salisbury Dana, Charles Schuchert (1918)
"Then came the expounders of the earth's origin, the cosmogonists of the sixteenth
to the end of the eighteenth centuries. The fashion of this time was to ..."
6. The Chinese Repository edited by Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Willaims (1850)
"If we compare the views of Deity held by these Chinese cosmogonists with the
views of the Greek philosophers, we shall find them very similar to those of ..."
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