Monday, August 3, 2009

Aptly named

I love the billowy cosmos flowers but had never considered where its name could have come from until today. See all the stars in the center? It looks like an explosion of suns in the sky. Wikipedia included this in its definition of the cosmos: "Pythagoras is said to have been the first philosopher to apply the term cosmos to the Universe, perhaps from application to the starry firmament."

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