macrocosm
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The structure alone provides a glimpse into an ancient worldview in which the macrocosm reflects the microcosm, and everything that is or that happens inextricably connects to everything else.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2023
All events in the skies were thought to affect those on Earth; the microcosm mirrors the macrocosm, it was believed.
From Nature ● Dec. 12, 2019
“She is trying to hang onto who she is inside of what’s happening in the macrocosm in the world she’s policing,” she adds.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 14, 2017
But unlike most of Ms. Thurber’s previous work, in which we infer the macrocosm from the microcosm, “The Insurgents” plants us firmly within the frame of a big picture.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2015
It might be thought that Copernicus was responsible for the destruction of the correspondence between microcosm and macrocosm.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
