Cosmogony Definition

Cosmogony Sentence Examples

• In the Orphic cosmogony the origin of all goes back to Chronos, the personification of time, who produces Aether and Chaos.

• It is only in the institutes of Manu, where we find the system of castes propounded in its complete development, that Brahma has his definite place assigned to him in the cosmogony.

• It is curious that Laplace, while bestowing more attention than they deserved on the crude conjectures of Buffon, seems to have been unaware that he had been, to some extent, anticipated by Kant, who had put forward in 1755, in his Allgemeine Naturgeschichte, a true though defective nebular cosmogony.

• To deny the Linnaean, or later the Cuvierian, classes was very much like denying the Mosaic cosmogony.

• Jewish thinkers would have been attracted by the emphatic assertion of the creatorship of the One God in the royal Persian inscriptions more than by the traditional cosmogony.