by neufer » Fri Aug 18, 2017 3:08 am
FLPhotoCatcher wrote:
Actually, if you click on the "mosaicked close-up" link in the description, they say that there is a "small area of cloning left lower spiral arm for cosmetic purposes." I don't see it... It must be a cosmetic of cosmic quality.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=cosmos wrote:
cosmos (n.) c. 1200 (but not popular until 1848, as a translation of Humboldt's Kosmos), from Latinized form of Greek kosmos "order, good order, orderly arrangement," a word with several main senses rooted in those notions: The verb kosmein meant generally "to dispose, prepare," but especially "to order and arrange (troops for battle), to set (an army) in array;" also "to establish (a government or regime);" "to deck, adorn, equip, dress" (especially of women).
Thus kosmos had an important secondary sense of "ornaments of a woman's dress, decoration" as well as "the universe, the world." Pythagoras is said to have been the first to apply this word to "the universe," perhaps originally meaning "the starry firmament," but later it was extended to the whole physical world, including the earth.
[quote="FLPhotoCatcher"]
Actually, if you click on the "mosaicked close-up" link in the description, they say that there is a "small area of cloning left lower spiral arm for cosmetic purposes." I don't see it... It must be a cosmetic of cosmic quality.[/quote][quote=" http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=cosmos"]
cosmos (n.) c. 1200 (but not popular until 1848, as a translation of Humboldt's Kosmos), from Latinized form of Greek kosmos "order, good order, orderly arrangement," a word with several main senses rooted in those notions: The verb kosmein meant generally "to dispose, prepare," but especially "to order and arrange (troops for battle), to set (an army) in array;" also "to establish (a government or regime);" "to deck, adorn, equip, dress" (especially of women). [b][color=#0000FF]Thus kosmos had an important secondary sense of "ornaments of a woman's dress, decoration" as well as "the universe, the world."[/color][/b] Pythagoras is said to have been the first to apply this word to "the universe," perhaps originally meaning "the starry firmament," but later it was extended to the whole physical world, including the earth. [/quote]