Meanings
- archaicuncountableThe representation of the world.
Here Spirit is conceived of as Substance, and Matter as the typocosmy apparent to the senses, and which we call the world.
1914 January 15, Huntly Carter, “The Public Ownership of the Artist”, in The Egoist, volume 1, number 2, page 332 more examples
Such was the travail of Raymundus Lullius, in making that art which bears his name; not unlike to some books of typocosmy, which have been made since; being nothing but a mass of words of all arts, to give men countenance, that those which use the terms might be thought to understand the art; which collections are much like a fripper’s or broker’s shop, that hath ends of everything, but nothing of worth.
1910 [1605], Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, London: Macmillan, →OL, page 93Typocosmy was at once a mystical, esoteric form of astrology and a private philosophical or cosmological system based upon Krafft’s exalted visions of the macrocosm and the microcosm.
1967, Ellic Howe, chapter 10, in Urania’s Children: The Strange World of the Astrologers, London: William Kimber, →ISBN, page 145
Origin
From Ancient Greek τῠ́πος (tŭ́pos, “type”) + Ancient Greek κόσμος (kósmos, “world”) + -y.
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