Cosmos Canvas Art Shop

The word 'cosmos' originally came from the Greek word 'κόσμος', meaning 'order'. The idea of a myth of creation pervades all forms of human culture, and in nearly all cases has as its basis the idea of a prime mover creating order from chaos, although of course the methods tend to vary wildly. This is how the word 'cosmos' came to mean 'the universe' in modern English, the word careening wildly from classical Greece to ancient Rome, to be propagated across whole continents with the Latin tongue, which formed the basis for the Romantic languages of French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, which in turn spread all over the globe with their own forays into empire.

As language is how we describe the world and make it make sense, so images are the information we base that description on, the lens we use to view an aspect of the huge and baffling universe around us. Although many of the images in our Cosmos gallery have been enhanced with photo manipulation techniques, the images itself retain their incredible scope and power...