different between cosmography vs cosmogony

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????????? (kosmographía, “description of the world”); synchronically analyzable as cosmo- +? -graphy

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -????fi

Noun

cosmography (countable and uncountable, plural cosmographies)

1. The creation of maps of the universe.
2. The study of the size and geometry of the universe and changes in those with cosmic time.

Related terms

• cosmogony
• cosmographize
• cosmology

Translations

English

Wikiversity

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????????? (kosmogonía), from ?????? (kósmos, “world”) + ????? (gónos, “creation”). Surface analysis, cosmo- +? -gony.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?z?m???ni/

Noun

cosmogony (countable and uncountable, plural cosmogonies)

1. The study of the origin, and sometimes the development, of the universe or the solar system, in astrophysics, religion, and other fields.
2. Any specific theory, model, myth, or other account of the origin of the universe.
3. The creation of the universe.

Synonyms

• cosmogenesis, cosmogeny, cosmology; hexameron (biblical)

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• anthropogeny
• cosmography
• eschatology
• theogony

References

• cosmogony at OneLook Dictionary Search
• cosmogony in Encyclopedia Britannica, 1911 ed.
• cosmogony in Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., at Bartleby.com.
• cosmogony by John Peter Arendzen, in The Catholic Encyclopedia, Robert Appleton Company, New York, 1913.