In City and Cosmos, Keith D. Lilley argues that the medieval mind considered the city truly a microcosm: much more than a collection of houses, a city also repr

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Theologian Harry Lee Poe and chemist Jimmy H. Davis argue that God's interaction with our world is a possibility affirmed equally by the Bible and the contempor

Traces the concept of kosmos as order, arrangement, and ornament in ancient philosophy, literature, and aesthetics.