cosmogonical
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It leads directly to the third law of Kepler, which thus becomes susceptible of being conceived à priori in a cosmogonical point of view.
From Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Robert Chambers
Philosophers held it to be the result of undue proportions in the mixture of the two cosmogonical principles which when properly blended produce the harmony of nature.
From Religions of Ancient China by Herbert Allen Giles
Their cosmogonical connexion has already been referred to in a previous chapter.
From Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner
This, then, is the interpretation I have to offer of the cosmogonical myth of the Algonkins.
From American Hero-Myths A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent by Daniel Garrison Brinton
He was not a Philosopher; his speculations belonged to those cosmogonical dreams which precede true philosophy, and begin again when philosophy goes to sleep, as we see in the speculations of the present day.
From Plutarch's Lives, Volume II by Aubrey Stewart
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