, the science of the formation of the universe; as distinguished from cosmography, which is the science of the parts of the universe, supposing it formed, and in the state as we behold it; and from cosmology, which reasons on the actual and permanent state of the world as it now is; whereas cosmogony reasons on the variable state of the world at the time of its formation.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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