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I realized that I should have my definitions straight and that prompted me to make the first of my notebook sections: Vocabulary.

Today's vocabulary entries?

cosmogony: 1. a theory of the origin of the universe. 2. the creation or origin of the world or universe.

cosmography: 1. a general description of the world or the universe. 2. the science that deals with the constitution of the whole order of nature.

cosmology: 1a. a branch of metaphysics that deals with the nature of the universe. 1b. a theory or doctrine describing the natural order of the universe. 2. a branch of astronomy that deals with the origin, structure, and space-time relationship of the universe. Also: a theory dealing with these matters.

Having been presented with the difference between these, I realize I'm probably more interested in starting with cosmogonies, but I may end up looking at the others as they seem likely to be intertwined.

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some additional reading: cosmogony (including a "chronology of the universe" according to the Big Bang version of the story, and something about creation myths). Also, a timeline of cosmological theories.