Cosmos
<p>The <b>cosmos</b> (<small><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_English" title="British English">UK</a></small> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English" title="Help:IPA for English">/ˈkɒzmɒs/</a>, <small><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_English" title="American English">US</a></small> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English" title="Help:IPA for English">/ˈkɒzmoʊs/</a>) is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe" title="Universe">universe</a> regarded as a complex and orderly system; the opposite of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos%28cosmogony%29" title="Chaos (cosmogony)">chaos</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup> The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosopher" title="Philosopher">philosopher</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoras" title="Pythagoras">Pythagoras</a> used the term <i>cosmos</i> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek" title="Ancient Greek">Ancient Greek</a>: κόσμος) for the order of the universe, but the term was not part of modern language until the 19th century geographer and polymath, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_von_Humboldt" title="Alexander von Humboldt">Alexander von Humboldt</a>, resurrected the use of the word from the ancient Greek, assigned it to his multi-volume treatise, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos%28Humboldt%29" title="Kosmos (Humboldt)">Kosmos</a>, and, along the way, influenced our present and somewhat holistic perception of the universe as one interacting entity.<sup id="cite_ref-HumboldtPaul1860_2-0" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos#cite_note-HumboldtPaul1860-2">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup></p>