Definition of "cosmogony"
noun
countable and uncountable, plural cosmogonies
The study of the origin, and sometimes the development, of the universe or the solar system, in astrophysics, religion, and other fields.
Quotations
Mr. Lampredi divides his ſubject into ſeveral heads, viz. Natural Theology, Coſmogony, Ceraunoscopy, i.e. the judgments to be formed from thunder and lightning, Phyſic, Botany, Mechanics, and Politics.
1758 September, The Monthly Review, London, page 301