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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 215 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COSMIC (from Gr. Kovµos, See also:order or universe)  , pertaining to the universe, universal or orderly . In See also:ancient See also:astronomy, the word "cosmical " means occurring at sunrise, and designates especially the rising or setting of the stars at that See also:time . " Cosmical physics " is a See also:term broadly applied to the totality of those branches of See also:science which treat of cosmical phenomena and their, explanation by the See also:laws of physics . It includes terrestrial See also:magnetism, the tides, See also:meteorology as related to cosmical causes, the See also:aurora, meteoric phenomena, and the See also:physical constitution of the heavenly bodies generally . It differs from See also:astrophysics only in dealing principally with phenomena in their wider aspects, and as the products of physical causes, while astrophysics is more concerned with See also:minute details of observation .

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