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What is a microcosm?

What is a microcosm? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Human nature or the human body as representative of the wider universe; man considered as a miniature counterpart of divine or universal nature. [from 15th c.]
  2. (obsolete) The human body; a person. [17th-19th c.]
  3. A smaller system which is seen as representative of a larger one. [from 17th c.]
  4. (ecology) A small natural ecosystem; an artificial ecosystem set up as an experimental model. [from 19th c.]
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The thing about a shopping centre is it's a kind of twisted microcosm of the world.
With the inventions of the electron microscope and the field ion microscope, scientists have been able to observe the microcosm as never before.
By this time the correlation of the macrocosm and microcosm was complete and the doctrine of metempsychosis fully formulated.
Both deal with the union of the microcosm with the macrocosm, although they might use different terminology.
The microcosm as well as the macrocosm is based on a constant harmony of movement, from the atoms to the galaxies.
We must not weary of studying the microcosm if we wish rightly to understand the macrocosm of a developed economic order.

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