cosmology• Like Galileo, he was committed to the Copernican system as a cosmology and not merely as a mathematicalhypothesis.• It amounts to a cosmology as hermetic as Blake's.• An alternativecosmology is the Hartle / Hawkingmodel, which does not assume a background space-time in which the universe arises.• In the sixteenthcentury, opposition to the religiousimplications of Copernican cosmology came initially from the Reformation.• So this is Democritus' cosmology - a universe ruled largely by chance.• From this demotion, the modern age came to feel severed from cosmology as no other culture had ever felt before.• Copernicus suspected that there was an essentialerror in Ptolemaic cosmology.• In an attempt to get data from this natural laboratory, particle physics has become ever more entwined with cosmology.
Origincosmology
(1600-1700)Modern Latincosmologia, from Greekkosmos ( → COSMOS) + Modern Latin-logia“-logy”