COSMIC (from Gr. Kovµos,

See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order or universe)  , pertaining to the universe, universal or orderly . In ancient astronomy, the word "cosmical " means occurring at sunrise, and designates especially the rising or setting of the stars at that time . " Cosmical physics " is a term broadly applied to the totality of those branches of science which treat of cosmical phenomena and their, explanation by the laws of physics . It includes terrestrial magnetism, the tides, meteorology as related to cosmical causes, the aurora, meteoric phenomena, and the physical constitution of the heavenly bodies generally . It differs from astrophysics only in dealing principally with phenomena in their wider aspects, and as the products of physical causes, while astrophysics is more concerned with minute details of observation .